Idvd burn failure error

last night I attempted to burn again via your advice on link--"http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1610170?" When idvd was finished with burn it said "burn failure". Would you no if it's because I'm burning my saved idvd project from the external harddrive? Anotherwords is it making it to comfusing to the system. I made one dvd from idvd project that was made on internal H.D the burn was sucessfully and played in my home dvd player yet when I put it back in the mac it didn't show up in finder or desktop,just spun for 20 second and ejected. Took dvd to work to try on mac recognized it right away. Is there some sort of diagnostic I can do by myself or do I have to bring it in. If you can help please give detail as I'm still getting to no my way around. Any advice would be helpful.Thanks mark

I too have had "burn failures". I discovered that if I make a disc image of the project and then burn it using disc utility there is no problem.
To do this:
1) while in iDVD go to "file" and select save as a disc image. This will take as long as your original burn, but when done you will have a .img file on your desktop.
2) open your hard drive and select utilities. In utilities select disc utility, open this. You should see your .img file show up. If not, close utility, click in the .img file on the desktop and reopen the disc utility.
3) select the .img file in disc utility and choose "burn" icon. It may be helpful to burn it at a slower speed. I only burn at 4x now and there are no problems. When you choose burn, it will give you the option to select the burn speed.
Hope this helps!
Jeni

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