DVD studio pro trouble

Mac friends: Any one use DVD Studio Pro? I want to tear my hair out. I have my menu and assets all ready to go and when played on the simulator things work perfectly... Then when I burn the DVD - nothing. Nada. Suggestions??? I'm on a deadline.

You need to describe what is happening better.
janiep03 wrote:
. . . when I burn the DVD - nothing. Nada.
What does that mean? The disc does not burn? The disc does not playback in a DVD player?
MtD

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Re: DVD Studio Pro quits unexpectedly
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Maybe my story will help You...
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restart
new user
delete preferences
reinstall DVDSP...
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Re: DVD Studio Pro quits unexpectedly
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I am realy in deep troubles!
Doing a (volentary) documentation about my city, the final doc movie will be shown at 7.januar 2006.
Since 1 1/2 year i am working on DVD projekt and nearly finished.Suddenly DVD Studio pro goes crazy.
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small, meduim,often i guess (have it in german)
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I can say the quality was better, better color and less noise or moire.
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Finaly i have solved my problem!
The forum and the helpers did guide me in the right direction.It was not logicaly to me why it work again.
With FCP i could view the sequenz correct.
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The output i imported into DVDStudio pro.The import was about 4 minute while bevor it was a few seconds!
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