Cannot Burn on iDVD '08

I am not able to burn anything in iDVD '08. I have made several attempts to burn a DVD. However, after five minutes of "rendering menu video assets" on the "process menus" stage, my computer becomes completely frozen and must restart my MacBook Pro after each attempt. During each attempt, I have waited anywhere from 0 seconds to 8 hours to restart. This is very frustrating; thanks in advance for the help!!

I have a similar problem with my relatively new 17" MacBook Pro (perhaps exactly the same as some others on this thread). I have tried repeatedly to burn and even left it running overnight thinking I may be over eager. I have made sure I have the most up to date software and reboated several times to be sure. I would love to hear another solution other than those proposed already. I have also removed various non-apple codecs from Quicktime as suggested in another support area on the apple website.
My crash seems to repeatedly occur when rendering the part 2 of 2 in the main menus. Much frustration on this end.

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Can someone help me out with this. I'm burning a dvd I made for christmas presents, and I need to figure this out before the weekend when I need to hand out the gifts ahh!
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b. You could try to see what happens if You turn off animation/motion menu
Else it can be a problem needing to be trouble shooted and cured. See list.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
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• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
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I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
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've been a Mac user for 18 years and I'm disappointed and surprised with Apple.
Why...? You accomplished what you wanted to do. It just took you some time to find that.
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I'll try the disk image again. I have created on before, but don't actually get to use it. I'll open the disk image file and it has, of course, two files in it. It doesn't prompt or I haven't seen info in iDVD to burn the image. I'll check the link you sent me.
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(These instructions should be one the links I posted...).
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You actually get that message, the disk is ejected, but nothing is burned onto it? It won't play in the computer or on a DVD player?
Then when I try to shut the program down it won't. A message of "cleaning up" prompts in the program and never completes.
You mean that you cannot close your iDVD project? Even if you have problems at this point, your disk should have burned already.
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Also after iMovie there is an option to send to iDVD so themes and what not can be added. I usually send the movie that way.
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Hi
• Memorix DL disks - Usually a problem maker - If You have a Verbatime - try this - else
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PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06A:
Firmware Revision: Q631
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
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CD-Write: -R, -RW
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Hi
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