IDVD power calibration error?

Hello everyone. For the past few days I have been trying to burn a dvd from iDVD, however, when it seems to almost finish an error message pops up. ( Error, power calibration error 0x73, 0x03). Can anybody help me?

Hi FilmStudent:
Welcome to discussions!
I think that this is an issue related to the DVD media. Basically, your burner doesn't like whatever brand of discs you've just brought and so you get that weird error message.
May I suggest Verbatim DVD-R 8x or less? (4x if you can find them).
:)Sue

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    Basically a power calibration is the drive writes to the blank and then tries to read it back and adjusts the laser power accordingly to get a proper burn. So there are a number of reasons you might get this problem.
    One is the media itself. A bad disc or poor quality media might give you this error.
    Next, you may have a dirty laser and running on of those cleaning CDs (they have little brushes on them to dust off the laser) might do the trick.
    Third, could be a laser on the drive is giving up the ghost. Hopefully it is not the last one.
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    What does that error code mean?
    Any resolution?
    Thanks.

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    What type of DVD ?
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    (alternative is to make a DiskImage of Your DVD project - standard in iDVD 5 and onwards.
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    from Boise Jim
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    From. Boise, Idaho
    I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
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    by dheb0422
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    To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
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    One project worked fine in creating disk image file
    The other gave Multiplex Errors
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    • No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
    • No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
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    Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
    5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
    6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
    7. Trash iDVD pref. file
    8. Make a new iDVD project
    9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
    10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
    Yours Bengt W

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