IDVD 08 useless

iDVD on my Intel iMac (2.0 GHz, 2G Ram, 100G free hard disk) is totally useless under Leopard. It hangs for 20 minutes on the simplest things. If I select the (for want of a better term) 'outline view' it hangs. If I click on a button in the view to select a Scenes page, it hangs. If I click on the 'I' button to get info, it hangs. If I click on the scroller, it hangs. And when I mean 'hang', I mean the Spinning BeachBall of Death, the Activity Monitor shows iDVD using 100%+ of one core, a couple of the subprocesses (ThumbnailServer and EncoderServer) not responding, iDVD not responding, nothing.
To get here I imported an iMovie 06 movie that's 90 minutes long (a long slideshow with transitions between the slides) that's very large (16 GB on disk). That took a long time, but it was successful! Then I said "burn to a disk image" and it fails (after a LONG, LONG time) with errors on the menus. So I read posts here that said to remove the sounds on the menus, and I've been trying to do that all day. But I can't! iDVD just doesn't respond. I can't even click away and go to another app; if I click back on iDVD it (you guessed it!) hangs for minutes.
This is so frustrating! It worked much better under Tiger, at least then it didn't just go away and ponder it's navel for hours at a time. I feel like I'm running on an SE/30 or maybe even an original Fat Mac.
And then not to be able to create the disk image when under Tiger it worked is just icing on the cake. I am very disappointed.

Yup as expected, the burn failed. I trashed iDVD, installed from the disk, downloaded the iLife and iDVD updates, installed them, and the same thing happens. Simply clicking the scroll bar makes the app go to 100.3% of CPU and stop responding for minutes.
The burn fails with a lot of errors in the log (this has NOTHING to do with the complete non-responsiveness of iDVD):
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:39 PM iDVD * -[DOHFakeTheme pathForResource:ofType:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x123e1800
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:39 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD An exception of type NSInvalidArgumentException occured.
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:39 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD * -[DOHFakeTheme pathForResource:ofType:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x123e1800
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:39 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD Stack trace:
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM iDVD NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:
NSInvalidArgumentException -- * -[DOHFakeTheme pathForResource:ofType:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x123e1800
Stack trace: 0x96719a 0x9196709b 0x9129d46a 0x9129ba6c 0x9129bb32 0x1b1822 0x1a0cd3 0xbc729 0xce193 0x1246d7 0x90945acd 0x9121cb7e 0x9121cd38 0x957238a4 0x957236bd 0x95723531 0x921b8d5b 0x921b86a0 0x921b16d1 0x9217e9ba 0x3729 0x2e7a 0x2da1 0x2
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM iDVD * NSRunLoop ignoring exception '* -[DOHFakeTheme pathForResource:ofType:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x123e1800' that raised during posting of delayed perform with target 0xf1db790 and selector 'setupCustomizeTab'
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 1 -[NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector:] (in CoreFoundation)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 2 __forwarding__ (in CoreFoundation)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 3 CF_forwarding_prep0 (in CoreFoundation)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 4 0x001b1822 (in iDVD)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 5 0x001a0cd3 (in iDVD)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 6 0x000bc729 (in iDVD)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 7 0x000ce193 (in iDVD)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 8 0x001246d7 (in iDVD)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 9 __NSFireDelayedPerform (in Foundation)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 10 CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 11 CFRunLoopRunInMode (in CoreFoundation)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 12 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 13 ReceiveNextEventCom
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD mon (in HIToolbox)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 14 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode (in HIToolbox)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 15 _DPSNextEvent (in AppKit)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 16 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in AppKit)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 17 -[NSApplication run] (in AppKit)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 18 NSApplicationMain (in AppKit)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 19 0x00003729 (in iDVD)
11/19/07 (Mon) 4:06:40 PM [0x0-0x2a42a4].com.apple.iDVD 20 0x00002e7a (in iDVD)
Sigh.

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The error report looks like this: http://lepo.it.da.ut.ee/~aloola/idvdunexpectedlyquits2.html
My iBook came with Panther and iDVD installed. Since I did not need it initially I deleted it to save disk space. A few weeks ago I upgraded to Tiger. A few days ago I needed to author a DVD. I reinstalled iMovie and iDVD from my Panther install discs (the upgrade to Tiger DVD does not contain them). iMovie seems to work just fine. I captured the video (about 23minutes) from camera and after adding chapter marks launched an iDVD project from iMovie. The authoring worked fine as well. Up to the point where I need to save my dvdproject as disc image. iDVD just quits.
So I tried reinstalling it, changing preferences, creating a project with a small .mov file (25MB), repairing permissions, using using the "'Pfurz' and 'Hurz'" files etc. Nothing seems to make it work. I have 15GB of free space on my hard drive and it is very hard for me to free some more. Anyway space shouldn't be an issue, if I try to save a dvdproject that only contains a short (2:30) movie trailer. There should be plenty of room for rendering and saving this small disc image.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could give me some advice what to try next. I am out of ideas and frustrated about having bought a program with my iBook, that is virtually useless without this "Save as Disc Image" feature working.
Is there a direct way to contact Apple support by email to notify them about this issue and receive official feedback whether it will be repaired or if my computer perhaps need some "repairing"?

aloola,
Welcome to the iDVD forum!
after adding chapter marks
Make sure your chapter markers conform to these rules:
http://dvd.kentidwell.com/?page_id=53
changing preferences....repairing permissions
I know you've done it before, but it's a good idea to delete the iDVD plist file anytime iDVD unexpectedly quits, so do it again.
15GB of free space
In your case (only 23 minutes of movie) I'd have to agree that 15GB should be enough. But do everything you can to get more space anyway.
Sometimes movies themselves have some glitch in them that is causing iDVD to crash. Make another short dummy iMovie (just use some Ken Burns clips) and see if you can "Save as Disk Image" Also check to make sure there isn't "extra" audio that extends beyond the end of the video in iMovie, as this has been known to cause problems.
Try creating a new user and see if that user can "Save as Disk Image"
Is there a direct way to contact Apple support by email
No you call Applecare (by phone) if your Mac is still eligible.
http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html
John B.

IDVD 7.1 (asOf iLive'11) slow performance?

Hi,
Now that I have iLive'11 I wanted to create an new DVD with iDVD. As already known it is the same version as before (7.0.4?), with no changes except adaptations to the other iLive'11 app. But I am wondering if the performance is really accurate: When choosing a picture from an iPhoto or Apperture library it takes a few seconds until the picture appears in the album. That makes no fun working with it ! Did somebody found the same behavior .. or even an solution?
I am running iDVD on a iMac 24'', 2.8Ghz Intel Core Duo with 4GB RAM on Snow Leopard 10.6.5. That should be sufficient...

No answers yet ... Hmm, disappointing ... seems no one can either agree or disagree ? I can only repeat: On my Mac (which still works fine for all apps) this iDVD is useless as it stops productivity, no fun at. Please Apple do something !!!

Is there any hope of using iDVD 7 to burn DVDs (Leopard 10.6.6, Mac Mini)?

I've tried many of the suggestions in these discussions, short of reinstalling iDVD or wiping the hard drive and reinstalling OSX 10.6.6, and doing that seems excessive simply to use included Apple software. I have more than 260GB available on my hard drive, no external drives open (there are some connected both by FW and USB, but they are not even turned on, just connected to ports).
iDVD 7.1.1 won't even get past the menu before it fails and gives an error that the 'burn cannot be completed'. There are no 'extras' in the menu, simply ONE QT/iMovie/iDVD compliant 15-second video; no drop zones, no fancy anything, default text for the video 'button', no hyphens or special characters, simply one video from my camera and the application can't get past the menu.
Should I just go back to burning dvds from my powerbook G4 (tibook) through s-video to a dvd/vhs recorder?

Hi, and thanks for the quick response. Yes, I have deleted the iDVD preferences about a dozen times. I started out my first project with a positive attitude and set up to burn 4 videos (all non-copyrighted, from my own cameras and library), and decided to fill in some time with slide shows from pictures on the hard drive (not in iPhoto, but they showed up in the iDVD media area and tested fine following the iDVD 'how to' pdf.)
I had added audio (to the slides), but it was from an external 40-gb firewire drive, and one of the slide shows was from pics stored there.
I removed those externally-hosted files first, after trying several times to delete the plist file with no better results. Then I removed that hard drive from the picture and turned it off, so no external source files are in play.
I removed slide shows entirely from the media list after just removing them from the project and menu seemed to have no affect, partly since the error message mentions the 'menu/slideshows' in it's (boilerplate?) dialog box.
Tried 'burning a disc image' after each modification (reduction of number and length of files) to the project, based on recommendations here.
With each successive error (none of which got past the menu building phase) I removed another video file; deleted the menus entirely and tried 'new' menus, until I decided to remove all videos from the project and try just that one short 15-second video shot last week for posting on a web forum (it was not one of the original videos I hoped to use).
I shut off all 'drop zones' from the menus. I used the default fonts and text buttons that appear when you drag a file from the media list into the menu window.
I even tried rebooting the computer to clear any latent memory that might be causing a problem (as a 'shot in the dark'). After every change, I quit the project and iDVD and deleted the plist, then restarted iDVD and tried again. All to no avail.
I'm on a budget, that's why I downgraded from my old iMac G5 when it died and switched to the Mac Mini aluminum 4,1, and I'm not looking to upgrade my now useless Toast 5xx to a compatible Toast 10 (even if that might work).
To recap:
I started out full-bore with video and photos and music (latter two for slide shows);
After confirming everything worked together and there were no errors showing in the map view, and running through the slides and video files several times to make sure they 'worked', I tried to burn the disc (no disc image at this point, just a confident full-blown burn). Got the error in the menu phase.
Started reading the discussions forum (this place) for a couple hours looking at what problems others were having, and trying the suggestions posed therein. No luck.
Then decided to try deleting preference plist and creating a 'disc image' on the desktop of the entire original project. No luck.
Then multiple incremental changes to the original project until I was left with the single movie file to see if any of my original media files might be the problem. (I even made sure there were no special characters in the titles, menu buttons, etc of any of those files, as someone mentioned the menus don't like any 'special characters'.)
So, here we are. I am wondering if maybe the Mini is just not powerful enough to handle burning dvds? (It seems like it isn't platform based, since iDVD doesn't even get through the menu phase). This Mac Mini is about 1 month old.

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