Fcp keeps hanging on DVD burn!

So I made a movie and hit share - DVD. It is only like a 20 min video, nothing crazy. Well it makes the first DVD just fine and then it asks to burn again, so I put another blank in the drive, and hit burn again. It gets all the way to the end and can't finish. It says 99% done and never completes. I quit everything and pop the DVD out and it plays until the very end and says the DVD is scratched......what the heck? I just updated all the software to the current versions too. Any ideas?
Thanks!

I agree with Jim. Don't use the Share function, it's been a bit flaky for me. I would recommend that you export a Quicktime movie of your sequence, then take that file to Compressor for encoding.
Compressor 3.5.x includes the ability to add job actions to a batch, so you can burn a DVD directly from Compressor ... as you've already found out.

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