IDVD Freezes while burning, PLEASE HELP!

First off, I have used IDvD quite a few times, and have never had this problem.

I am attempting to burn a 13 minute video project to a DVD and having NO success. After selecting the theme I want and dropping in my video from Imovie, I click burn and of course wait quite awhile for everything to process. The process makes it through all the steps until just after the encoding video process. Just after, it goes to the burn process and eventually spits the DVD out of my computer, but after that the "burning" message is still up and the dvd button is still spinning. I attempt to play my DVD on both my computer and in a regular dvd player, and it reads "unplayable disc" or just doesn't appear to be in the dvd player.

I have tried exporting my dvd to quicktime, except the only difference is that my title slides have become blurry in the Idvd preview option. Please help!!! I need to get this DVD burnt ASAP.

Is it something wrong with my DVD burner, since it seems to spit the DVD out of the computer before its finished burning? Or am I missing something?

Also, I used an mp3 that was not from itunes, could this be causing an error with the burning? (i have read other users posts concerning an error while burning due to a song file)

Finally, the most interesting part is that when I reinsert the DVD-RW I am using to burn the video on, it reads as a blank disc, could this be a problem with the disc I am using to burn my movie on?

2 GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 17, 2007 9:13 PM

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Jan 18, 2007 6:35 AM in response to Klaus1

I'm not sure but I think when I tried burning a movie to a DVD+RW, that it didn't play back on my home DVD player.

The quickest and best solution is to burn to a quality, name-brand, DVD-R. Also, rather than burning to disk, first burn it as an image file. This allows you to burn at the slowest speed - 4x. This improves the chances of playing on different DVD players by reducing burning errors.

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