IDVD doesn't burn.

So I put together my files, put one in the desired drop zone and clicked on the burn (radioactive) icon. iDVD went through the motions and ejected the DVD. When I went to play it... nothing. I slipped it back into the disk drive and found nothing on the disk.
What's wrong with the software?

iDVD forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=128

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I tried to use iDVD last night for the first time.
I created a small project with two .mov files.
Preview worked OK.
I clicked on the Burn button. I asked a blank DVD-R disc when asked.
iDVD took long time doing encoding and stuff, but shortly after it started burning, it ejected the disc.
But the progress window won't go away. It just shows
"Current operation: done" and sits there. I clicked on Cancel then it showed "Cleaning up" (or something like that), and it sits there.
The Quit button doesn't do anything. Force-quit menu item doesn't show up, so iDVD must be responding to GUI somehow. I had to go to Activity Monitor to kill it.
The disc it ejected contains zero bytes. It couldn't be read. But it is no longer a blank disk that can be written.
I tried DiskUtility and it also behaved funny. It behaved as though it made a disc with verification on. But the resulting disc is a blank disc, not in the sense of the disc that can be written, but in the sense it contains zero bytes.
What gives? A hardware problem? Can a cheap disc cause the symptom like this? (I'm using the $7 10-disc pack sold at Walgreen.)
Message was edited by: coffeeloverwhocannottakecoffee

Can a cheap disc cause the symptom like this?
Yes it can, although 'cheap' does not enter the equation, just the brand and the quality of the coating!
Most of us here recommend Verbatim and Fuji DVD-R, a few others also use Maxell.
Try saving the iDVD project as a Disk Image, then playing that in DVD Player to check that all is well - saves building up a collection of coasters!
Burning the DVD from a disk image also allows you to select a slower burn speed like 2x or 4x, which usually gives a better burn quality.
Something here might also help you:
Apple Knowledge Base article about disk burning:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1152

IDVD doesn't burn discs properly!

Hi all,
First of all I'm new to this so if I've missed out any info please let me know. I've always downloaded a lot of films and in the past, have had no problem burning them to discs since I got my mac in 2006. I used to burn them using the "Create New Project" and add in movie, sort menu's etc, but after a while I realised there's no point in all that cause it takes longer and all I really want is the movie on a disc anyway. So I started using the "One Step DVD from Movie" and I would make the discs that way, which I never had any problems with either. I hadn't made any DVDs for a while, possibly 3 or 4 months and when I tried the other day it seems to go through the movie ok, converting the video and audio and then goes to burn the disc, which is where I have the problem. It normally goes to writing video out and things like that but the last couple of times I have tried to burn discs it goes to that as usual then spits out the DVD before going through the entire process. I then have to cancel the process and the DVD I was trying to burn is no longer usable because it seems to have written parts of the movie to it, but not the full movie so it's not possible to watch on a DVD player or even in the mac DVD player. It's very strange, I don't get any error message or anything coming up, it just spits out the DVD and then iDVD freezes and I have to force quit out of it. I'm wondering if it's maybe the version of iDVD that's the problem. Obviously as I've not used the iDVD for a while it will have been automatically updated via the Software Update which I run at least once a week. I'm unsure of the version the last time I used it to make a DVD but the version I have now seems to be the latest one for my system (version 6.0.4). After a few unsuccessful tries at making the DVDs using the One Step DVD, I tried to do it by creating a project first, but it seems to do the exact same thing, go through the whole process (which takes about 2 hours, sometimes longer) and then burn only part of it then I can't use the disc again. Please help, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Debz

Thanks for quick reply and I'm sorry about the long message, I was just trying to explain everything that had happened. Not touched the media at all since I got it, I didn't change any settings or make anything different from when I used to burn discs before. I have about 10GB free on my mac at this moment, but at the time I had about 30GB free, maybe just under. I have been reading other posts on here about discs not burning properly and a couple of the things that have been said is to not have any other applications open, which I didn't and have more than 15GB space free, which I always have had when burning discs.

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iDVD 08, dual layer DVD doesn't burn last 2 minutes of audio, I get perfect audio/video through the whole DVD except the last 2 minutes or so...
I'm burning a 3 hour DVD on iDVD 08. I'm burning it only a DL+R Dual Layer disc. I've burned with "high quality" compression, "professional quality" compression. I've even burned the last 2 minutes of the timeline just to make sure it wasn't the quicktime file and the video and audio played fine.
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FLICKERING in SLIDESHOW PLAYBACK IN QUICKTIME OR iDVD w/ Ken Burns toggled "ON"
Posted INCORRECTLY EARLIER IN iPhoto 6 Forum: Apr 17, 2009 12:27 PM
Hello everyone, and especially QuickTimeKirk if I can get his attention please--->
After pressing "Play" in iPhoto and with Ken Burns "Auto" toggled ON the PLAYBACK VIEWING photos in iPhoto is OKAY.
After clicking on "Slideshow" and choosing same options, ie., with Auto Ken Burns "ON", VIEWING of Slideshow in iPhoto is OKAY.
Now happy with slideshow, I click on Export (goes into processing with QuickTime, or some elements of it I presume),
NOW SUDDENLY the VIEWING IS JUMPY, SOMETIMES LOCKS UP--totally unacceptable.
Yet if "Auto Ken Burns" is toggled OFF in iPhoto slideshow settings, leaving a flat & still picture and then Exporting File (goes into processing QuickTime) then PLAYBACK VIEW in QuickTime and iDVD IS OKAY.
So, how do I get to use Auto Ken Burns Effect AND without JUMPY/FLICKER/LOCKUPS in my slideshows this year? (A year or more ago everything worked out just fine using the same methods as today).
I sure would appreciate your help so I can send out some iDVD's with my Slideshows with the K-B effect "On."
Please help if you can,
THanks,
Max

Mr. "K"
Thanks very much for your rapid reply...this thing has had me in knots for days.
I opened MI and watched it as I played
Slideshow-A with Ken Burns ON
versus
Slideshow-B with Ken Burns turned OFF.
S# A was a several hundred MB in size (wow, how'd that happen?) while S# B was less than 100MB.
S# A jumps, stutters, etc. S# B does not.
The FPS of 30 and Playing FPS of 30 can be seen in a third (Slideshow#C) video that has KB toggled on and that one doesn't seem to stutter nearly so much. It's size is 70MB.
I checked my Codec Pkg using Get Info and found it is Ver. 1.1
My G4 is rated at 800MHz
and has plenty of RAM (if that's where this stuff is cached for playback).
Not sufficient? Please let me know how and if I can rectify that?
Watching with MI engaged is one thing, but What can I do about this disappointing outcome in iDVD or QuickTime playback?
Earlier (2yrs ago) I could create a Slideshow, toggle on Ken Burns, watch a video with no probs.
If you'd be so kind, please offer your best strategies.
THANKS,
Max

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I bought some DVDs used and for some reason, they don't play well on my DVD player. I think it might be due to scratches. Anyways, they play fine on my computer so I ripped them onto my computer. Now I want to burn them onto DVDs but iDVD doesn't work for all of them. When I try burning I Love You, Man, it says there's an error building, which occurs at the burning stage. When I try to burn 13 Going On 30, it stops before anything even really starts.
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From the Apple Discussions Terms of Use:
8.2: Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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I started out full-bore with video and photos and music (latter two for slide shows);
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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.
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No not in iDVD3
AND - NEITHER - Save as a DiskImage. Was introduced in version 5 (and there was a Hack to use in iDVD 4 - but iDVD 3 no)
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iDVD - doesn't care about Gbs or Mbs - only time
• Time = Movie duration + Menu time (can take 15 min or even more. I have movies on 500Mb that do not fit and on 50Gb that fit's nicely)
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.mov is no video codec - it is a container as -avi, .mp4, .m4v, .wmv etc and can hold codecs that works nicely and most often not.
• Open Your movie in QuickTime-player. OK - then here open Inspector (cmd-I) and read Video format/codec: nnnnnnnnn
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iDVD 3 (from 2003)
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IDVD doesn't work

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Welcome to the forums.
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pui sum wrote:
First of all, thank you folks for the responds. I check back as suggested and found the following: -
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The post above already has a Solved check mark on it.
Only 1 solved and 2 Helpful are allowed per thread.
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The main thing is you have got the issue sorted out.
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IDVD no longer burns DVDs

I use iDVD a LOT, and it has always worked fine up until a few months ago. The first problem to occur was that iDVD would create and burn the first DVD, then refuse to burn additional copies. I just worked around this by taking the first copy and making further copies with Toast.
But now iDVD is not even burning the first copy. It does all the rendering and encoding, then just spits out the disc without writing it. On screen iDVD tells me "done", but no option to burn another; there's a "cancel" button, which does nothing because iDVD has frozen at this point anyway.
It's the same problem as posted by another user:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2114895&tstart=0
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Oddly, the following problem has also just appeared for me as well:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2031418&tstart=0
Which also has no solution so far.
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I've tried re-installing iDVD from the original Apple discs. Didn't help.
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I'm the only user on the computer
Plenty of hard drive space - more space, in fact, than I had when iDVD used to work.
I just can't understand why iDVD would work for years, then just stop working. I need to burn these DVDs for my job, and customers are starting to ask where their discs are... please help!

Hi
My trouble shooting list
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool) (To Repair Hard disk You need to start/boot from DVD or external hard disk)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref file resides. Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named.
com.apple.iDVD.plist
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Now restart iDVD.
• Program miss-match. iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
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• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
If You do a re-install be sure to get rid of all iDVD old parts AND then EMPTY the Trash-basket !
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