Encoding Audio - Solution that worked for me

Hi all,
As some of you may or may not have known, i was having trouble with my iDVD project hanging at the encoding audio stage for about 24 hours.
Yesterday i decided to try out a suggestion that i had seen on another thread somewhere. Appologies as i cannot recall where i saw it. However it worked for me.
This is what i did
I saved my iMovie project as normal (containing 160 clips and 5 songs from my iTunes library) and then closed iMovie.
I then opened up iDVD and chose 'new project'. I selected the theme i wanted, and then i opened up the 'DVD map' function. I then clicked the plus sumbol and chose 'add new movie'. I then opened up finder, browsed to my iMovie project file and dragged it into the tile i had just created.
All the scene menus populated as it would have done if i had 'exported' to iDVD from iMovie. I then added some background pictures etc, and burnt the project to 'disc image'.
The audio encoding part hung for about 2 hours as normal with the beach ball of death but i could see that the iDVD project file in finder was getting larger (a helpful tip that several of you taught me).
Then the beachball dissapeared and the encoding bar began to fill up blue. And then the image was created.
All in all it took 4 hours which, for a workaround is fine by me (although a fix would make me happier)
So i think the trick was to not use the 'export/share to iDVD' option in iMovie.
On a side note. This method also eradicated the audio lagging that i was experiencing before where the songs at the end of the project were suddenly 2 seconds behind the film when viewed in iDVD.
I hope that this method works for others experiencing this frustrating problem.
Kind regards
LJ

Hi M
Thank You for stating an advice I often give as so many else does.
Nice to see that it works for You to.
And a good and well writted description !
All Good Luck !
Yours Bengt W

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