Help - DVD freezes halfway through movie!

I've tried burning something that is 1hr and 32 minutes long... but both times I've burned it, it freezes sometime during the 47 minute mark. When I say it freezes, I mean when it's finished burning, and I try it in a DVD player, it starts freezing as if it were scratched. The DVD had no scratches both times...
I've tried:
Making more space on my computer.
Closing all other programs and not touching the computer as it's burning.
Perhaps I need to make some chapters? As of right now, I've only burned the movie as one, bulk movie that you have to fast-forward through.
Any ideas?
- bahardesty

Hi
1. iDVD 8 has three levels of qualities.
• Professional Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - BEST (iDVD08 only)
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High/Best Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
2. From
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov
(not selfcontained)
(not with QT conversions)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to the movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 not meant to go to iDVD. Use iMovie HD 6 (need to b e publiched into the
media manager.
3. I use Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly eg x1 (in iDVD’08 this can also be set)
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc).
5. Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
8. iMovie 6 has a bug: if You emptie the trash in iMovie ken burns might stop to wirk and photos has to be re-imported and re-done.
Note from - elkriverken: With the help of others, I was able to narrow down the problem. However the final solution was to keep all the audio confined to only ONE track. When I added audio on the second tract overlapping the first tract audio, the noise or flutter began and continued past the ending of the audio from the second tract. Now there is no flutter. The video and audio now work perfectly. Thanks to all.
Yours Bengt W

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