Closing session willl not close....

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Closing session willl not close....

After advice from reading the forum, I burnt my iDVD project to diskimage..previewed with DVDplayer...worked great....however when trying to burn to DVD-r it always hangs up on closing session....I wait 8 hours over night still hangin...after forced quit I try the DVD and it works in my windows and Mac computers. Does not work in my home DVD player....Is the DVD actually closed? I imagine so since I cannot burn anymore to it....Why does it hang on closing session?....The burner is a sony that came with my 3 year old iMac....I have 6 gig harddrive space (I heard this may be a problem - should have 9 gig or more)...My project is small with only 2 slideshows - one has 99 images, the other 45 images....the burner works fine with CD's...no problems reading CD/DVD's....is the problem tied to iDVD 6 running on OS10.3.9?....Should I just go get an external DVD burner (firewire)...this has to work by June as I am doing a large photo shoot....the project calls for slideshow DVD...so I need this to work....any ideas what I can try doing to stop this hanging up problem?

Thanks so much
Reuben

iMac G4 768 Ram 17 Flat Panel, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Apr 26, 2007 7:34 AM

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Answer 1

SDMacuser

Level 6

13,585 points

Apr 26, 2007 8:48 AM in response to Reuben Schulz

Welcome Reuben Schulz

Why does it hang on closing session?

First off, i'd recommend you free up more internal HD space. Burning DVD's requires 20-25 GB's. Rarely would I recommend less than 15GB's. And yes it is possible to encounter lead in or lead out issues when burning to DVD-R if this space is simply not available on the system.

Second I'd recommend burning to a disc image and using apple's disc utilities (or Toast) to burn to Verbatim / Maxell DVD-R at 4x or slower (slower is better). Do not use alternate media/s in this case (Memorex and TDK for example have been known to have a slightly higher failure rate and most noticeably when writing the lead in or lead out on these DVD's).

Hope this Helps.

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Answer 2

Len Goff

Level 6

17,911 points

Apr 26, 2007 9:44 AM in response to Reuben Schulz

any ideas what I can try doing to stop this hanging up problem?

In addition to what SDMacuser said, I use Verbatim DVD-R burned at 4X or slower from a disk image.

It may be that lack of 20GB+ start-up drive space.

the burner works fine with CD's...no problems reading CD/DVD's.

Burning DVDs is much more problematic due to many factors:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302925

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