Burn DVD frozen at one minute left

Hi,
I need a DVD for a presentation tomorrow and never use iDVD much, preferring PTpublisher. But it would not import the QT.mov file. iDVD started burning the DVD but got to the "time remaining: about one minute" stage and stuck there. I am burning on my Disk Duplicator since the internal drive says some other application has control - which it doesn't. However there is a blank DVD in there that did not show up on the "finder" (or, in my case, the "loser")
What the heck is wrong with it? I couldn't seem to get it to create a trial disk image either - that I could use with my Discribe and my Bravo II to copy over a DVD image.
I am using a year-old, almost, iMac quadcore with tons of memory and a SSD.
Have to get something before noon tomorrow!
please give me an idea.
Barry

Hi
First step is to split process into an encoding step and a burning step. Seem's like You tested this.
• Save as a DiskImage - test and see if this is OK
• Burn this by use of Disk Util tool
If error persist on "Save as a DiskImage" step (encoding process) then
• trash iDVD pref file
• secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• repair Permissions
• go trough material used so that they are in a flavor that iDVD can use
If error in Burn stage - then
• Use of cheap brands usually do not work - I only use Verbatim
• Use of DVD-type - I only use DVD-R as they play on more even older DVD-Players - NEVER +/-RW DVDs
• Burn speed set down to x4 -=> Less burn errors => DVD plays better
• Still free space on Start-Up hard disk is essential - I never go under 25Gb
If this is OK - then one usually resort to a full new installment of iDVD
alt rout if everything's fails is to use another encoding program as Roxio Toast™
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