Burning anamorphic QT from FCP in iDVD-3

Hi There
I'm exporting a quicktime movie from an fcp project using a 24FPS timeline in anamorphic mode. I imported the Quicktime movie into iDVD 3 will start to burn but quits half way through. I've wasted about 4 DVD's so far using this setup does anyone know what could be the problem.
Thanks in advance

but I have QT 10.......I should drop to QT 7??
Like I said: you must have Quicktime 7 running. Anamorphizer will NOT work with Quicktime X.
If you don't have QT 7 running when you try to use Anamorphized, it will try to use QT X which won't work.
From another of my postings on the topic:
Get Anamorphizer at http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
Make sure Quicktime 7 is open before you try Anamorphizer. (NOTE: You MUST use Quicktime 7 and NOT Quicktime X)
Place a copy of your movie clip in a new folder and drag that clip over the Anamorphizer icon. This should create a second file in that folder that start with Anamorphic- This is the reference movie you drag-and-drop into iDVD. Note that your clip in that folder (which is the movie the reference movie points to, must not be moved or deleted).

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