IDVD 7.1.2 in OSX 10.8.5 Cannot get to finish burning DVD

I tried two different slideshow templates in iDVD thinking that I had chosen a newer template causing my problem. I know I burned a DVD slideshow successfully last year on my computer and with my current operating system and current iDVD version. But I cannot seem to get the DVD I created to burn...it gets through Prepare and is processing menus when it gets stuck and says: "Error during rendering/encoding" "There was an error during rendering/encoding of menus/slideshows. The burning process has been canceled."
What is going on?! And does anyone have any suggestions on another software that would work to create beautiful slideshows similar to that of iDVD? I've had to convert to another program after iWeb was discontinued for web developing and I feel the same pressure with iDVD. Totally disappointed with Adobe/Apple lately.
Can you suggest a solution for my current problem? or another similar program to use to replace iDVD?
Thank you in advance.
Grace

Hi
I think more info might help - I made a list I used in other questions - Please see if You can add anything to this - just to set us up on track on what's gone wrong.
MANY things might not apply - please skipp them if so.
So many things that can do this.
a. How many minutes are Your movie ? (movie + menu (can be up to 15 min or even more)
b. Was there any Error-Message from iDVD ?
c. What brand of DVD disc
d. DVD-R or +R or +/-RW
e. Did You just burn or set down burn speed to x1 (x4 recommended by many) ?
f. What version of iDVD ?
g. What version of iMovie ?
h. What version of Mac OS ?
i. What version of QuickTime ?
j. Project PAL or NTSC in iMovie and in iDVD (or PAL to NTSC) ?
k. Any strange file formats like .mpg4, .wmv, .avi etc ?
l. Audio from iTunes or .mp3 ?
m. FREE SPACE - on internal (start-up/boot) hard disk ?
n. QuickTime Plug-ins ?
o. How was it installed ? iLife 6 after iLife’08 or 09 results in severe problems if iL’08 or 09 first been completely removed. (Can be installed after iLife 6 and resulting in a working version of iM HD6 in the folder ”iMovie previous versions”. Most of us have it this way. iM HD6 and iDVD09 are a great combination.)
p. Did You try to
- Save as a DiakImage
- Play it with - DVD-player tool - If OK
- Burn it with - Disk Util tool and at BURN SPEED set to x2
You see there are so many things that can make iDVD to behave strangely.
I would
delete iDVD pref. file (alt. start a new User account and log into this)
start a new iDVD project
secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on internal hard disk
then re-try BUT first make a DiskImage and test this (File menu and down to Save as DiskImage).
and if this plays well with Apple's DVD Player application then burn either via
iDVD (re-calculation is needed = long time)
Apple’s Disk Utilities application - can do this burn and create a Video-DVD
Roxio Toast™ - easy way to do it - but to a cost
Copy to DVD disk via DeskTop - Creates a Data-DVD that WILL NOT PLAY on any DVD-player !
Yours Bengt W

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