Calling Old Toad Multiplexer/burn problems

Old Toad (and others),
Since you. are. the. man. on this forum, I thought I'd try to get a bit of advice, if you or anyone else can help. This is my first leap into iMovie/iDVD - I've been running Macs for 15 years though. I'm shooting a Canon HDV-30, 24 fps, 1080i. I'm importing and creating an extremely simple project of my son's basketball games. There are no cuts, no monkeying around with video/sound quality: just simple fade transitions between time outs, quarters, etc. I pulled this "large" movie into iDVD - 50 minutes worth, had a single team picture as a slideshow with one mp3 song on top of the slideshow, kept the "best performance" option, and created no chapters (aside from the single one automatically created by iDVD at the start). I get through all of the burn sequence until an error message pops up, 'multiplexer error, unable to complete burn'. That may not be an exact quotation. Most of my six or seven tries the disc is left completely blank. One time, however, I got about 2:53 on the disc. This time mark did not correspond to any transition.
I've repaired my permissions. I have not reinstalled iDVD '08, however. The movie was imported to an external 400 firewire drive. This morning I did get iDVD to burn a disk image onto my desktop (startup drive) and burned that to DVD, but the result was only a series of unix video files. (I have plenty of drive space on all three drives (two internal, one external) - on the order of 80 gbs per.
As you can tell, I'm a complete novice when it comes to knowing what going on 'under the hood' or how to tackle this systematically.
Could you point me in the right direction?

You know, this really requires an extensive explanation as to why iDvd works best from the boot volume and why the pro apps don't need this since they employ one or more scratch discs. I'd offer up more details but I have a Dr. appointment in just 30 mins.
Essentially, if you plan to use 24 fps then you are shooting pro equipment and editing with apple's pro software. (mixing and matching is not good in this situation IMO).
The i-apps are intended for consumers and utilize 25 fps or 29.97.
OT often posts later in the day and sometimes at night. I'm hopeful he'll see this soon and post / add a few comments as well. Good luck on this.
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Well, I hooked up my MacBook to my TV to watch a slide show, and while the thumbnails showed, every selected picture had the grey square and exclamation mark. It had worked fine prior to hookup to TV.
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So it plays OK on the Mac but not when you plug into the TV. You might post this question in the MacBook forum. There may be users there that are using TVs in one way or another and can help. Not having used a second monitor or TV I'm at the end of my help on this topic. Except: Know any exorcists? Good luck.

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Hello,
After many iDVD issues, I finally got the burning process of my DVD project.. half way through it spit my DVD out and gave me these errors:
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The recording device reported the illegal request: Buffer underrun. (0x21, 0x02.)
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Chris

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2) It could even be a problem with your DVD burner going bad, but not as likely. I did have one SuperDrive replaced because I started having problems even with good, recommended brands of DVD media. However, try getting some better media first. Don't buy a lot. Try out a small package of DVD-R's or buy a disc from a friend to try out a brand.
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Help please:
iDVD is not burning DVDs for me.
it goes through the whole process seemingly fine, then at the end shows the error message: "problem during multiplexing/burning".
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external Lacie dvd burner (that burns fine on wife's imac)
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thoughts?
R

Ah then if Toast has a connection issue and iDVD is having issues when burning, it would appear that your issue is unrelated to iDVD and instead a system or hardware problem. Unfortunately that might be too hard to diagnose here in this forum, at least not with a ton of non-iDVD related back and forth questions and answers.
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Old Toad
Burning dvd's for back up.
I see that if I command-click Event folders the size increases down where it says information in the left bottom corner. Keep it to 4gig or less for each dvd. That works for me. When doing this does it also save any keywords etc.
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David:
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Yes. Run the application like you would use the Save command in other applications, often. Running it again will overwrite the current backup copy with a new backup that will include all changes you've made to your library, new pictures, deletions, slideshows, books, etc.
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