Error on iDVD

Trying to burn my picture project with music on iDVD to a DVD. I keep getting and error. It says, Error occurred while rendering/encoding. Can't figure it out, Can someone please help?

Check Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic: Multiplexing Error: Apple Support Communities.
Follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
Also I'll ask the Hosts to move this topic to the iDVD community where it belongs.
OT

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After two days of trying to figure out what causes this multiplexer error in iDVD - I have deduced that it is chapter markers in FCP. I can burn projects from quicktimes exported from FCP without chapters, but cannot burn ones with chapters.
Obviously I'd like chapters - has anyone run into this before and found any solutions?
Thanks.
Also, how do we let Apple know of these bugs so that they can fix them?

I regularly export from FCP to iDVD with chapter markers with no issues. Make sure you don't have a chapter marker too close to the beginning of the project; make sure the markers aren't too close together (like more than one second). I've heard of chapter marker issues if they are right on transitions tho I've never had that problem. Make sure nothing is selected in your timeline before you export
Obviously you want to export as Quicktime Movie, not Quicktime Conversion. Make sure you have iDVD set up to recognize chapter markers; sorry if these are obvious, just trying to think of everything.
Also, don't forget to mixdown your audio before exporting
The iDVD forum can also be helpful

I'm getting multiplexing error in iDVD when trying to burn.

Trying to finish an iDVD within 4 hours. I'm getting a multiplexing error when burning. It's a slide show with 429 pictures, background music and no movies.

Hi
You are aware of that - SlideShow function in iDVD has some limitations.
• 99 Photos per SlideShow (and You can have 99 of these)
• one audio tune (but You can make a special audio file/track including several Music parts - but as one track)
on MultiPlex Error - I've made a long long list - as this is a very complex error
Multiplexing Error
Multiplexing error is a very complex problem due to many things (long long list following) - one common but not obvious reason is that material on the iDVD menu goes outside the TV-Safe area (or just touching it).
So first - turn on TV-Safe area and move any object well inside of this.
Wide screen stretched - usually (as I think) it is due to making a 4x3 movie in a 16x9 wide-screen project OR the other way around. This forces one to on flat-screen TV (or other) set the presenting view right - My has 4x3, wide-screen, zoom and auto-wide-screen and I have to switch this by my remote for some DVD I've made "wrong" way.
Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
B. Location of Chapters
• Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
• Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
PART Two.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
Once I did that, I was back in business.
from Boise Jim
Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly e.g. x1
This gives good DVDs
PART Three.
Multiplex Error
Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
e.g. external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev.
(Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
First, I do not think that mixing wide-screen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
From. Boise, Idaho
I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
Hopefully this can help other people.
by dheb0422
Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
One user more writes
To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
This time multiplex errors gone
So had something to do with chapters
So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
After numerous tries, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 sec's beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
Rich839
In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
Summary - What to try
1. Chapters
• Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
• No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
• No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
3. Safe re-boot
4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
SDMacuser adds to this
• On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
7. Trash iDVD pref. file
8. Make a new iDVD project
9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Yours Bengt W

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Teje

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Errors were found during the burning process
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I've looked through this discussion group and cannot find the answer to my question. If it's there, please provide a link rather than taking your time to retype an answer.
I'm trying to use iDVD for really the first time. I created a movie in iMovie. I can watch it on the preview screen in iDVD but when I try to burn the movie and theme from iDVD, I get the following error message everytime. I've got lots of memory and disk space. The iDVD creation is simple, just the theme main menu plus the movie.
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Thanks in advance
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Multiplexing error in iDVD

I've read some of the other posts about this, but none mentioned the same symptoms I'm having.
iDVD throws a multiplexing error if I have chapters in my video. If I remove the chapters in iMovie and then use iDVD to burn, it works great. But adding the chapters back into the movie (in iMovie), then burning using iDVD causes Multiplexing.
How do I resolve this? I need my movies to have chapters!

Hi
My collecting material on this. Unsorted and not 100% at all.
*Multiplexing Error*
Use of strange video/audio material eg .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio = .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else coverted to this .aiff 16-bit 48KHz)
*Using strange letters in video project name eg +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9*
*strange letters in project name eg +*
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
Once I did that, I was back in business.
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly eg x1
This gives good DVDs
Yours Bengt W

Encoder error in idvd

When I process a 75 minute imovie project to be used on idvd, I get an error saying the project is too long and I need to adjust the encoder setting. What is the encoder setting?
Thanks

IDVD has two encoder settings, best quality BQ and best performance BP.
BQ uses two-pass variable bit rate encoding and can encode up to two hours on a single layer DVD. BP uses a set bit-rate encoder, and can only put one hour of video on a single layer DVD.
Your preferences are set for this in your iDVD preferences. If you have it set to BP, but are trying to import a long movie from iMovie (over 1 hour) I'm guessing iDVD is trying to switch your settings to BQ so it can fit the 1hour+ movie.
What these should mean:
OK - Would mean to change the settings of the project to match the iDVD prefs and keep encoded assets
Update Project - would mean "NO" don't change the encoder settings of the project to match the iDVD prefs but instead delete the encoded assets that were presumably encoded at the wrong setting and now would have to be re-encoded (updated) to the new setting.
I agree this is confusing, because either way something gets updated, either the settings or the assets!
But since you are creating a new iDVD project, I don't understand what happening here......
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Whenever I try the Magic DVD feature lately (it used to work), iDVD freezes and I have to force quit. It repeatedly gives Connection Failed errors. But, strangely enough, if I simply make a new iDVD project (not through the Magic feature), it works just fine. I don't know of anything that I've done to cause this error. Tried messing with .plist files and don't want to do that again (seemed to cause bigger errors).

Hi
No not really any of them.
I suggested this to find out where the trouble resides.
• If the new account works. You solved an acute situation and the problem is most probably a
pref file.
=> Delete the one in first account or even re-install iLife
• If not - a more severe trouble shooting is of need
Yours Bengt W

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i am receiving multiplexing errors each time I do the foowing:
1/ open idvd and choose one of the new '08 themes
2/ add 200 images from iPhoto '08 using the media panel
3/ add a track from iTunes
4/ finally choose "save as disc image" from the file menu
5/ after about 30 mins i get the error message- i have tried this 5 times now, inc restarts first.
There is lots of free hard disk space and no other apps are running at the time.
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I would keep a slideshow under 100 images for starters:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302961

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How do you fix a multiplexer error that occurs during an iDvd burn process?

I "shared some slideshows from iPhoto 09 which included stills and some video.
I "shared" some movies from iMovie HD (version 06), and I tried "sharing" 2 movies from iMovie 09. After reading some of the previous posts, I tried a few other things, including:
1) Repair Permissions on hard disk utility after removing lots of extra, old files.
2)exporting the 09 movies as quicktime movies to the desktop, then dragging them back into the dvd. (After deleting project assets and starting fresh.)
3) Saving the dvd as a Disk Image and trying to play it - it wouldn't play.
4)removing the 2 09 movies altogether in case you can't mix HD and 09 imovie together on one dvd - still got the multiplexer message.
**Note: I don't have any chapter markers in anything, nor do I have any titles with characters.
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Please help, my idvd says there is an internal error when i try and make a movie, it was fine before!!

Hi
Very hard to say with so little info. Did You do any trouble-shooting ?
• Movie in iMovie has same fps (NTSC or PAL) as the iDVD project - must be
• Trashing iMovie and iDVD pref files so that new error free one is made on next start-up
• Run Repair Permissions (Disk Util tool)
• Run Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but now You must start Mac from DVD or external hard disk - can't do brain surgery on one self)
What material did You use
• Video Codec
• Photo format
• Audio file types
Yours Bengt W

Burning error on iDVD

I am trying to burn a DVD that includes pictures and music. I have most of the slideshows done, but when I tried a test-run burn--it won't complete it.
It says something about a multiplexing/burning error. I click ok, and then it shows me an error message that says:
Burning finished.
Errors were found during the burning process.
Error #536890198
Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I'm using DVD+R discs. I looked, and my iMAC supports DVD+/-R or RW and DL as well. I'm semi-new to mac and super new to iDVD.
Any suggestions??
THANKS!
iMAC--intel Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hello Kholt,
I would recommend the following steps:
1. iDVD is NOT a disc burning app, so leave that work to software designed for it. Instead use iDVD's "Save as Disc Image" option (File > Save as Disk image). This creates an .img file on your HDD, that can be stored for future use and gives you the option to preview your DVD on your Mac before burning to disc.
2. Use Disc Utility or Toast to burn your DVD at slow speed. 4x is acceptable, 2x (... or even 1x) is better.
3. Use high quality DVD-R (not DVD+R) media (e.g. Verbatim) to minimize burn errors and compatibility issues. Make sure the DVD is compatible with slow burn speed (e.g. 1x-4x)
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hope this helps
mish

Burning errors using IDVD 3.0.1

I export a video from Final Cut Express HD to the desktop. I then open IDVD version 3.0.1 and dragged the movie into IDVD and then started the burn process. I get the following error
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Did you get this fixed? Could be any number of thing and we would need a bit more info to really help out... is this a self contained movie? How long is it (iDVD 3 will do 90-minutes max)? Does it playback in QT OK? and so on. A few things to try of the cuff: Make sure you are using DVD-R (minus R) NOT DVD+R (plus R) . There is a difference and iDVD 3 will only use -R. Save your sequence some place other than the desktop & make sure you have at least 10gigs of free hard drive space. It's a place to start.
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