IDVD - Burning Disk : cont'.

After 7 days of torment, I continually have problems with making, burning, a DVD slideshow.  Have always thought Mac was THE user friendly machine, but finding this not the case.  Finally thru iDVD help and Apples Discussions (OT) guidance have "created a new slideshow program" in iDVD from iPhoto.  Reset aspect to 4:3 as directed, setburn speed to 4x, ran a successful review....all well and ready?  Nope !!!...  window warning during burn...........""Error during rendering/encoding,... burning process cancelled."       Ejected, and reviewed program..looks fine. Reburn: warning keeps appearing every time .    What now ???????????????????????   Is that disk corrupted ?????   What do I need to correct??????????    Do I need to start a new program from the beginning?  The only two things I can think of is the disk was formated on a DVD player prior to installing on Mac, but the initial burn, altho blurry on TV, was successful.  Now nothing......  Using a -RW disk, ‘iDVD help says -RW is okay.  Maybe not best as OT says tho, but should burn...  ??
what now?

Memorex are not highly regarded round here - most of us use Verbatim DVD-R.
There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto, iMovie or iDVD and some limit the number of photos you can use (iDVD has a 99 chapter (slide) limitation).
If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!
Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico:  http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie  as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, including adding other video clips, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast,  for burning.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!
To simply create a slide show in iDVD 7 onwards from images in iPhoto or stored in other places on your hard disk or a connected server, look here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1089

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