Audio Encoding problem at burn step...

working at high school...fair newbies here, have had about a half-dozen successful movies completed so far..
Issue right now (end of year so help is appreciated)...
all is good to go, but the process gets hung up up at the third stage..."Process Movies" where it appears to work to the end about to finish, and the burn icon ceases to move, the time signal comes up spinning and nothing happens.
Go to hit alt, open apple and esc and the window comes up saying iDVD quit..
at one point, the first attempt thru...something said an "audio encoding" issue...
so close to burning...any idea what is going on???
thanks...
Larry

Hi Larry!
This question is one of our 'most popular'!
It is probably not 'hanging'. Disregard any messages that iDVD is not responding. It is. Ignore the spinning beachball of death. Do not force quit.
Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and can take many hours. Great patience, even an intermittent alternative hobby, is called for.
Make sure no other application is running, make sure you have not set the hard disk to go to sleep and that the screen saver will not come on. Leave it overnight, or have a 36 hole game of golf.
Sooner or later iDVD will finish!

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