Encoding Audio delay using iDVD ...

Why are Apple not rectifying this bug?
iDVD appears, even to the most advanced user, to have crashed when it comes to the Encoding Audio section. But it hasn't. Let it run. Yes I know that even if you check the Force Quit menu it shows iDVD as "not responding" but it is working.
Come on Apple - sort this out.
MacBookPro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

iDVD 6 Encoding audio "delay." So am I supposed to believe that iDVD is actually "working" on encoding the audio even when after 12 hours it says in the Force Quit menu that iDVD is "not responding" and there's a spinning cursor?? Balderdash!
I have spent the greater part of the last 3 days trying to finish off a massive project for my family: transferring all our old home videos to DVD. Actually, I spent many many additional hours adding a soundtrack with songs and sound effects to these silent movies. And all for nothing!
Trying to fix the problem of iDVD stopping responding during audio encoding, we bought a 500 Gb hard drive to clear up more space on the hard drive: $$!
I even tried turning off the audio track and just burning the dvd without it. Not even that worked! It still freezes up.
APPLE, if you are listening. PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS. This was to be my Christmas Gift to the family, and your product has FAILED.
powermac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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What i cannot understand is that iDVD and iMovie were created so that you could add transitions, music (encouraged to be from your iTunes library), titles and voice overs, yet when i (and it appears many others) try to do exactly that, we are left waiting for 24 hours + for the audio to encode.
To me this is completely unacceptable. I would understand if i was using some software that didnt recomend you to use iTunes as a music source, or it wasnt designed to add a couple of songs along the timeline.
If iTunes suddenly stopped being able to play music files or transfer them to your iPod there would be an uproar. Thats what iTunes was designed for, to arrange your music, and transfer it to your iPod.
And thats what iMovie and iDVD were invented for. To edit videos, and add music from your itunes library to those videos and then create your own DVD.
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Ive just spent £1000 on a new Macbook because i was sick to the back teeth of the problems i always exprienced on windows. Now i have a project sitting on my machine using up valuable space whilst i wait and hope that a fix will come out.
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regards
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IDVD-IMOVIE - encoding audio

IDVD Application stops responding when encoding audio from Imovie. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've made IDVD projects successsfully before, but can not get this project past audio encoding. I've tried exporting and sharing - but no avail.

iMovie help screen advises - "For the best compatibility with iMovie HD transitions, effects, titles, and the Ken Burns Effect, you should record your video with 48 kilohertz (kHz), 16-bit audio. Check your camera's manual for instructions on setting the audio bit rate and depth."
I’ve experimented with a ten minute movie with added audio. I set the sample rate at 48,000 khz and experienced no audio encoding stalling in iDVD.
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I have a 2 GHz PowerPC G5 iMac
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This is my first time using IDVD - I have a 2 hour movie that I am trying to burn.
It hangs and gives me the multicolored wheel when it is trying to encode the music during the burn process. It took about 5 hours to get to the point that it is now, and then an extra 3 since the multicolored wheel has been up. I have read other posts and some say, let it spin, and eventually it will finish. But I am not sure if they mean when the multicolored wheel is showing. Does anyone know what I need to do? I am desperate for HELP!!

Strange how I can't edit my post now even though it's only been half an hour...
I checked on the progress of the burn and the audio was finally encoded after about five to ten minutes of the "spinning lollipop". It said it was encoding the audio and seemed to hang, but when I went back to check on it the DVD was already burned. I looked for other advice on these boards and people recommend taking the MOV file from your iMovie project and dumping that directly into iDVD instead of exporting from iMovie to iDVD. To do that, control-click (or right-click) on your iMovie project icon in the Finder. Go to Shared Movies > iDVD and find the MOV file in that folder.
Many people have had this problem with iDVD hanging at the "Encoding Audio" stage, but if you leave it long enough, it will eventually finish. I think it's just a bug with the progress bar.
Good luck.
P.S. the movie that I was burning is only about 7 minutes long. I had first tried burning it from my PowerMac G4 but moved to an iMac G5 for my final attempt at burning and it now works. The first time around on the G4 the audio never finished encoding but after moving the iDVD project (and all the support files), it burned the DVD without any problems.

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I have been reading a large number of posts regarding iDVD freezing, having a spinning beachball, and hanging while encoding audio. I have not been able to find a post where it discusses the crashing/unexpected quitting of iDVD. I have tried a couple of times to get the burning process started, as I thought it may have been a small glitch, but to no avail.
Should I follow the steps marked out in:
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I usually complete the final process of iDVD with all Energy Saving and Screen Saver preferences set to "Never". I usually would delete encoded assets, but I did not have time before I went to work to try a third time.
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SUCCESS (But it took a while!)
When I arrived home form work, the first thing I did was to remove Flip4Mac using its uninstaller. This had no effect. iDVD still crashed bringing up the crash report dialogue box.
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IDVD 6 Encoding Audio....

I've spent most of this week trying to burn my iMovie film to DVD, and like many people on this forum, and other areas of the internet, I'm unable to do so with iDVD 'locking up' at the encoding audio stage.
I know its not the machine or RAM, as my iBook also does the same.
I'm sitting here having now waited 24 hours for it to finish - but it hasnt.
I know its doing something, as I've opened the package contents of the iDVD file and I can see 'tempmovie.mov' very slowly increase in size.
But I've burned many films before (in previous ilife verions), and to wait for such a long period is not right.
My last major project involved the burning of an AVI type file of 90 minutes, and it took a single overnight processing session to sort that out.
It must be the fact its an iMovie film thats causing problems, but can someone advise me how to speed it up ?
I am assuming it will finish, and I'll have a pristine DVD (lol)
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Any help from anyone would be appreciated, but none of this trash the preferences or whatever as that does not work.
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SharedLibs: num = 181, resident = 42.6M code, 4.83M data, 6.76M LinkEdit
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PhysMem: 107M wired, 443M active, 459M inactive, 1011M used, 13.0M free
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IDVD freezes when encoding audio

Whenever the project is done encoding the video, it freezes right when it gets to the encoding audio process.

for over 10 hours
New info...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
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Hello,
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