iDVD BURNING PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!

[MattG]

I've almost given up!!! I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING AND ALL I HAVE IS A BUNCH OF USELESS DVDS!! iDVD 4.0.1 SUX! Do you think I should through out iDVD 4.0.1 and re-install iDVD 3???? I need to finish this WEDDING DVD QUICK!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!

I understand your frustration--I've been there!

One tip I can offer, though it won't fix your problem it'll at least help with your DVD wastage problem...Go out and buy some DVD-RW's. They are compatible with iDVD (and your SuperDrive), and if you mess them up, you just erase and use again. What I sometimes do is burn the project to a DVD-RW if I'm not sure it's going to come out right. If it does come out right, I use Toast to copy onto a DVD-R. If it doesn't come out right, I erase and try again

 

[cawesjmu]

another user with the same problem

I'm having the same problems with iDVD 4.0.1. I've done all the usuals. Restart, Disk util...ect. I have a 800Mhz iMac with 768RAM. I have a ~16 min video. It has a lot of still pics and a few short video clips. Everything seemed fine exporting to iDVD from iMovie but when i tried to burn, it would take forever and then give me faulty DVD's. I had been checking Activity Monitor and "top" in the Terminal and iDVD seemed to be doing something all the time so it wasn't frozen. So i checked my "Console" for the heck of it and it has a long list of:

(date/time iDVD [387] playlist track 0 contains bad track id)
it says "track 0" evertime. so it must be one file trying to be re-read?

I assume this means one of my pictures or videos is bad or can't be found in the track and it can't burn it, but can i use this to narrow it down to the actual corupt file? All my files are on my compter and not on any external media. does anyone have any suggestions how to find/fix this "playlist track" Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[punkmac]

idvd problem

Even if you have your files for the dvd, if they have been moved after you created your dvd iDVD might not be able to find them.

I had this problem before. Now I make sure not to change the location of anything (music pictures video) until it's done.

Hope this helped.

I.

 

[jgp]

There MAY be some light at the end of the tunnel

I have 4.01 and 10.3.4. I originally had my settings to background encoding (as with earlier versions this seemed to work better). With the latest versions, this no longer seems to be the case. I have gone back to "highest quality" and it seems to be burning well (with video under on hour). I have not tried big 2 hr DVDs with the latest versions so I do not know how well that will burn.

I would also try different media brands (try to get the better ones...). It seems that small scratches in the media can also cause it to hang.

 

[cawesjmu]

another question

i have redone my movie in iMovie making sure all my files are in their place and haven't moved anything so no paths changed or anything. After doing this, i used iMovie's iDVD link button so that iMovie opened iDVD for me. I renamed the movie in iMovie but in iDVD the old title appears in the status menu. What gives? It's under asset. I can't remove it or replace it. And it doesn't seem to be encoding (there's no blue in the progress bar). Also, when i select "best performance" is says DVD capacity: 1.1GB but when i select "best quality" is says DVD capacity: 0.5GB. that doesn't seem right to me. shouldn't better quality mean bigger file? Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[Amani]

I Go out and buy some DVD-RW's. They are compatible with iDVD (and your SuperDrive), and if you mess them up, you just erase and use again.

I didn't know you could use DVD-RW with iDVD. So I'll give this a try.

I've used iDVD on my G5 dural processor G5 for two iMovie projects. The first one, about 30 minutes long, worked out well. But when I tried the second one, I hadd problems. The chapters would play well in preview, but when I burned on DVD-R, two of the four chapters would freeze up after they got started. I tried it a couple of more times, but ended up wasting a couple of DVDs.

I upgraded to 4.01, but it didn't help.

Has anyone troubleshooted this problem with any success?

 

[cawesjmu]

what i did to get mine to work

I finally got my movie to burn now. What i did was i exported my movie from iMovie as a .dv file under File>Share. Then told iDVD to import it in a new project. The .dv file was about 6.5 GB but when iDVD imported it, it said it was only 1.1GB. The .dv included my chapter markers and everything and iDVD finally began to encode and burned nicely. The whole process of burning only took about an hour after iDVD had encoded the video and was "Done" in the Status menu. I burned several discs and after the first disk, the subsequent disks only took about 25 min.