I cannot burn DVDs in either iDVD or iMovie.

The DVD ejects before the process ends, and is blank.
I have an iMac running Lion. Significantly, nothing at akll comes up about disc burning in the 'About My Mac' utility.

Hi again Frank - I am happy to report that I solved the problem and managed to burn DVDs that I can view in my DVD player.
The solution required a certain amount of lateral thought, as follows
(dramatic pause)
- if at first you can't burn DVDs on your own iMac, use your wife's iMac instead.
Mrs Cromercrox1 has an iMac that's a more recent model than mine, so I decided to give it a go (I asked her first, of course.) So I exported the m4v file from my own iMac onto a memory stick, loaded it onto my wife's iMac, formatted it in iMovie, prettified it in iDVD and burned the discs.
The video quality was rather poor but the audio was better - but I am not really complaining as I was just so pleased to have been able to have burned the darned things at all. So all's well that end's well

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