Ejects prematurely

After I finish using FCE4 to make my movie from AVCHD clips on my camcorder, I then use iDVD to burn it. I have made many like this but for some reason on this quick time movie I made, iDVD when it gets down to less than a couple of minutes left to burn ejects the disk as if it is complete. When I put the DVD in my PS3 it works fine but when I put it in my iMac, the iMac says I have put in a blank disk. Can anyone explain this?

How strange is that? (nevertheless I do believe it)
But I tell you what .... We have to narrow this down to either iDvd or your S-Drive /Media so let's start simple.
Have you tried burning your iDvd project file to a disc image from the file menu within iDvd? Now use apple's dvd player to test for proper playback. Assuming it plays exactly as expected then burn to Verbatim Dvd-R at 4x.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=en_US
Btw, what dvd brand did you use that works fine in PS3 but not in your mac?
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Premature Ejection

The DVD spits out of my MacBook Pro while on the screen it is still multiplexing and burning and the blue progress bar is still active as if the DVD has popped out without the machine noticing. The ejected DVD will either be unreadable or suffer severe damage or loss of data and lots of 'Skipping over damaged area'.
What is causing this premature ejection?
I have had my machine over 2 years now and problems with i-DVD/Movie are becoming more and more frequent and I can't run my business without it. The problem only seems to happen with long burns, a 5-15 minute movie will usually be alright but I tend to get it on hour long projects such as weddings with scene selections and deleted scenes.
Help greatly appreciated.

Okay, just got back from the iStudio and after about an hour we got to the bottom of the Menu duration exceeding 15 minutes thing which was down to the default moving clips in the scene selections pages.
The problem with the premature ejection is simply that my hardware, i.e. the DVD burner, is knackered - and after more than 2 years and with lots of usage this is no surprise. So I have the choice of buying an external burner like the ones for the MacBook Air or getting the internal replaced which is what i'll do. Not exactly cheap but definitely worth it as it will solve the burning issue all over - (I also can't copy DVD's in Toast) - and one thing that was suggested in the meantime is that for now I burn my DVD at the minimum speed, not the maximum.
I tried this using a nice, brand new Phillips blank DVD and it burned for a couple of hours then spat it out saying 'done' on the screen AND 50 minutes remaining. The DVD had a little ring of burn on its reverse side, the same width as a 10 min movie but when inserted back into the MacBook Pro absolutely nothing happened and it was eventually spat out after five minutes.
So, not all bad news but not all good - I suppose that the worst thing is that my friend Will in China will not be able to show his parents his wedding day before they fly back to England.

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I am trying to burn a 3hr iMovie project of a recent holiday trip. Due to its size, it therefore needs to go on a Dual Disc DVD. I intend to burn 8 copies, one for each member of the holiday.
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i got a macbook pro 2008 and can not back up using time machine. it eject my external hard drive everytime. does anybody has a fix???

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