IDVD "error during formatting"

ok so this is my first movie...and I must say I had to figure a lot of things by myself...dispite all of the help from others and what seemed to work for others on forums, discusions, so on and so forth...it didn't help for me...so I ussually have to figure these things out on my own...but I thought I would give it a try in asking anyway.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR ANSWER UNDERSTANDABLE NOT LONG AND IF POSSIBLE GIVE INSTRUCTIONS!!! (thank u X3)
If you are still reading this then thank you :3 lol
ok firstly
(1) there is no problem with how many videos and how much music I have on the menu(s), trust me...I know
(2) I have much content...(don't make me count)...I have a movie and extras...but like I said that shouldn't be a problem
(3) I have made a dvd before and it worked fine!
Short Summery (and by short I mean moderately not too long)
At first my movie contained too many sub-menus in my extras (too many being 4) (most people said the problem was because of too much video in the sub-menu...well...they were wrong) so I reduced it down to 3 and it seemed fine, but then I ran into another problem...there was just too much content...so I when to project> project info> and changed it to high quality.
I later wondered, if I put it on "profesional quality" would it allow me to have all 4 of my original sub-menus? I ended up putting my dvd in, and checked to see what the quality looked like (which it looked nothing like how it looked on my computer!! POOR QUALITY!!....or I could just be saying that because I'm a perfectionist and things like that bother me....ok....to the normal human eye the quality was fine)
I wanted to change a few things, so I decided "what the 'hey'" and changed it to professional quality and it was fine, there was no error or anything, so I left it like that.
I fixed the movie up, checked for errors (there were none) and started to burn my DVD (which btw took a whole 5hrs!!!) and in the end it stopped and said "error durring formatting" I mean....WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS BEFORE YOU RUINED MY DVD??!! AND DID IT HAVE TO TAKE 5HRS FOR YOU TO REALIZE THIS??!!?!?!?!?!? and it only told me there was an error....would you like to tell me WHY????
What I believe the problem might be
possibly I'm thinking it might have to do with either
(a) profesional quality does not change the fact there are too many sub-menus and idvd is just too dumb to tell me this ahead of time
(b) I forget at the moment .... but you get the idea
PLEASE TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS
I'm extremely angry because I had to take 2 sub menus, then change them back, and then wait 5 hrs to be told there was an error in the very ending of the making of my movie!! (not to mention some other problems I had...but I'll leave them out) I wanted to get this done soon, and apparently that's not going to happen HELP ME!!!!!

WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS BEFORE YOU RUINED MY DVD??!! AND DID IT HAVE TO TAKE 5HRS FOR YOU TO REALIZE THIS??!!?!?!?!?!?
You can always check the capacity meter / project info in iDvd. Green means you're good to go whereas red indicates you'll likely have issues when it comes to dvd quality and/ or encoding. Assuming it does show green, then burn a disc image from the file menu in iDvd and test playback with apple's dvd player app prior to burning. Far fewer coasters this way.
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I'm trying to burn an iMovie in iDVD and at the end of the whole burn process it says "Multiplexer Error" "there was an error during formatting". How do I fix it so that it'll burn?

I'm trying to burn an iMovie in iDVD and at the end of the whole burn process it says "Multiplexer Error" "there was an error during formatting". How do I fix it so that it'll burn?

Hi
Multiplexing error is a very complex problem due to many things (long long list following) - one common but not obvious reason is that material on the iDVD menu goes outside the TV-Safe area (or just touching it).
So first - turn on TV-Safe area and move any object well inside of this.
Wide screen stretched - usually (as I think) it is due to making a 4x3 movie in a 16x9 wide-screen project OR the other way around. This forces one to on flat-screen TV (or other) set the presenting view right - My has 4x3, wide-screen, zoom and auto-wide-screen and I have to switch this by my remote for some DVD I've made "wrong" way.
Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
B. Location of Chapters
• Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
• Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
PART Two.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
Once I did that, I was back in business.
from Boise Jim
Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly e.g. x1
This gives good DVDs
PART Three.
Multiplex Error
Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
e.g. external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev.
(Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
First, I do not think that mixing wide-screen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
From. Boise, Idaho
I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
Hopefully this can help other people.
by dheb0422
Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
One user more writes
To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
This time multiplex errors gone
So had something to do with chapters
So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
After numerous tries, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 sec's beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
Rich839
In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
Summary - What to try
1. Chapters
• Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
• No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
• No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
3. Safe re-boot
4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
SDMacuser adds to this
• On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
7. Trash iDVD pref. file
8. Make a new iDVD project
9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Yours Bengt W

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Error during formatting

I edited my project with final cut pro, when I try to burn a DVD i get the message
"Multiplexer Error there was an error during formatting" when I use iDVD
when I try using toast 8 I get the same problem. Can somebody tell me where do I start
trying to solve this problem. Thanks

Not sure what type of burner you have but it may be the media you're using. Try using a DVD-R and a 4x or less

IDVD message, 'Error during formating'

After adding ILIFE'09
I have successfully burned a DVD using Quicktime media , WMV converted to Quicktime and MP4 converted to Quicktime with my IDVD program, however after 4 days of burning, I suddenly received an ERROR message, after the "time remaining" message stated that the program was not burning, but in fact was "writing the Lead- out". The computer spit out my DVD disk and an air message said, " Error problem during the formating".
So I tested DVD media: DVD-R, DVD+R , DVD-RW
I downloaded MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2 to convert my media to DV. files
I checked my Utilities Disk Permissions and choose to archive and install, to get fresh start.
However after all that work, I am still receiving an air message, "Error during the Formating" when I attempt to burn a DVD in IDVD .
So after hundreds of hours trying to solve this issue I am stumped.
I pimped out my computer last year with all the extra memory doo-dads
...however I didn't change my optical disc drive.
Did I burn out my Optical disc drive?

Well, I was right. I burned out the old Optical Drive.
So I went out, purchased a new drive , installed it myself ...then test burned all the different types of raw DVD disks I purchased ...and I'm happy to report they all burned perfectly.
It would have been helpful to have gotten some type of warning from the computer that the optical drive had faltered. This important information would have given me some type of clue as to what the precise issue was and how to proceed.
This is the information age ...hello?

IDVD error during rendering/coding

I'm very new to Mac--converted over from PC after 20 yr. We have a JVC HD camera, have uploaded the clips to iMovie08, done the editing, etc. After much searching on discussion groups finally figured out to choose share>export movie, then I went to iDVD to create a project, dropped in photos, etc, and hit BURN. All seemed like it was going to go well, but after 10-15 min I got the message: "There was an error during renering/encoding of menus/slideshows . . . the process has been cancelled." There was another pop-up box saying "You inserted a blank DVD . . . choose one of the following options or ignore," and the options are Open Finder, Open DVD, Open iTunes, Open Disk Utility, Open other applications, Run Script. What did I do wrong? I thought this Mac stuff was supposed to "just work."

There may be something going on with one or more of the slides you selected. Have you moved any of their original locations or perhaps deleted one of the original files?
Drag and drop this item to the trash and Restart the computer:
com.apple.iDvd.plist

Multiplexer error - There was an error during formatting

Hello,
I'm using a brand new iMac 3.06Ghz and iDVD '08. The system software is completely fresh will all relevant updates applied. When burning to physical DVD's or to disk images, I'm frequently getting the following error message:
http://skitch.com/willwood/qysy/idvd
This error message occurs right at the end of the burn process and is occurring with about 80% of the burns I'm doing. Sometimes if I format a disk and try again it works second time round.
I went to an Apple store yesterday and spoke to a genius about this problem. I was told that instead of burning directly to a DVD, I should do the process in two stages. Firstly, get iDVD to make a disk image on my desktop and then use Disk Utility to physically burn the disk image to a blank DVD. Well, I've tried this as well and I'm no further forward. The same error message is being displayed. I've run through this guide: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=enUS&locale=enGB
and in answer to the questions:
1) Software update run, no updates available
2) I have over 820GB of free space
3) There are no non-Apple QuickTime plugins installed
4) No third-party iDVD theme's used
5) I'm able to burn from other applications like Finder and iPhoto
6) Have run hardware test. No problems identified
7) Issue occurs in the final few minutes of burn, no thumbnail shown
8) ?
9) Have tried re-encoding project
10) Intermittent fault - happens on other projects at random
I've done some googling and can't turn up any other information. Also searched these forums but quite a bit of what I've found relates to Final Cut. What else can I try?

I'm also on the trail of a solution. Actually two possible solutions.
I have two iMacs. My older one has OSX 10.4.11 (Tiger) and the newer one has OSX 10.5.3 (Leopard) on it. I was having very similar problems on both machines EXCEPT the older machine wouldn't say what the error was ... it would just say "there was an encoding error" .... but it was happening at the exact same time as the 'Multiplexer Error' so I think it may be the same thing.
Anyway, on the old (Tiger) Mac I tried removing all third party Quicktime components from /Library/Quicktime (such as Flip4Mac, Divx, and Perian) and tried re-encoding a 1 hour 30 minute piece of video. IT WORKED! So now I am in the process of adding those components back in one at a time to find out which one is the culprit. (personally I suspect it might be Perian sin it is the newest one I've added, and I've added it to the old computer and the new computer before this problem cropped up - but my experiments should tell me for sure)
On the new computer (Leopard) I looked at iDVD '08 closer and found that there are three compression modes (in the Project/Project Info menu) - "Best Performance", which lets you encode an hour or less of video - "High Quality" lets you encode more than an hour of video - and "Professional Quality" that also lets you encode more than an hour of video.
Obviously "Best Performance" works (that's the one I've been stuck with for the last couple weeks), but the "High Quality" mode is the one that chokes with the "Multiplexer Error" - But here's the kicker - just for grins I tried using "Professional Quality" mode and I was able to successfully create a DVD with 1 hour and 45 minutes of video !!!
So for now it's looking like a toss-up between Quicktime components being the culprit or a bug in the "High Quality" encode mode. But at least using the "Professional Quality" encode mode lets me create DVDs with more than an hour of video.
I will continue my experiments and let you know what happens.
By the way, the new computer is using iDVD '08 (version 7.02), while the old computer is using the older version of iDVD (version 6.04). So it's version 7.02 that throws out the "Multiplexer Error" in "High Quality" mode (but works in "Professional Quality" mode), and version 6.04 is choking Quicktime add-on components.
I hope this helps you. It sure makes me feel better having a way to encode more than an hour of video.

Multiplexer error - error during formatting

Hi gang
This is an ongoing saga the last couple of days. This morning (using a new user account due to previous problems) set up an iDVD 08 project which is 4.25 gigs in size. If I burn it in high quality or prof. quality the size of the file drops to 2.5 gigs which would indicate a serious drop in quality(?). So set it up to burn on a dual layer DVD (my computer supports this) and it takes right through the encoding and mulitplexing and when mulitplexing is finished it kicks out the message above. I have repaired permissions, removed idvdplist on this user account also. Checked the fcp project to ensure no chapter markers on any dissolves etc. So I am stumped. My next course of action would be to move the files over to my new imac and set up the project on that computer with idvd 08.

I am aware of your efforts to get this resolved. Have you tried a reinstall of iDVD? For the particulars on how to do this, read this thread. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8320683&#8320683
I hope this helps.

My iDVD always says "it was an error during the movie encording" and it suddenly stops burning idk what to do!

Ok so i'm trying to burn a short 10-min-long film to a DVD via iDVD.... i've worked with it before and never had any trouble.
But i havent used it for 3 years now probably, and as i made the DVD menu and sub-menus for this project i worked normally
as i always did, it was easy and everything worked just fine.
The only difference this time is when i click "burn" it starts processing the menus but when it's done, instead of going to the next step which is
processing the slideshows, it automatically stops the burning and it says "there was an error during movie encording" idk why it always comes out,
what i'm doing wrongor if it just doesnt work anymore :S it also opens a new mini window that says "you have insterted a blank DVD.
Choose an action: (open finder) (open iDVD) (open iTunes) etc" so this tells me it's reading it...
i've picked all the options and it still doesnt work with any of those at this same point. I've also tried changing the preferences, the screen mode,
the video quality, EVERYTHING! nothing works! DX
anyone knows how to fix this?
it'd be truely appreciated!!!
Yours Truely, DANIELLA.

So today, I deleted that original file (this gave me the ~18.5 GB free) off my internal HD and tried to burn the project.
So the DV file iMovie is using is on the external again? If so I assume iDVD knows that...
Have you tried making a disk image?
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
You could go to the iDVD 5 group and search the group for that error code. There was plenty of those there. Not much here.

When saving iDVD to disk image the following message appears: "Error during rendering/codification. There was an error during rendering/codification of menus/slide presentation. The recording process was canceled.

When saving iDVD to disk image the following message appears: "Error during rendering/codification. There was an error during rendering/codification of menus/slide presentation. The recording process was canceled.
What am I doing wrong?

Read and answer the questions posted by Bengt Wärleby in this thread: Cant burn my idvd project to...: Apple Support Communities
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Trying to burn my project to a DVD using iDVD, but keep getting "Error during rendering/encoding of the menus/slideshows. The burning process has been canceled." How do I fix this?

Just mad a movie and trying to burn it to a DVD but keep getting an error message. It reads:
"Error during rendering/encoding. There was an erro during rendering/encoding of the menus/slideshows. The burning process has been canceled."

Enable Show TV Safe Bengt Wärleby lists items to consider about encoding issues in this topic: Multiplexing Error: Apple Support Communities
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I repeatedly get "error during rendering/encoding of menus/slideshow" message. This process is the same on my iMac, MacBook and another iMac. I have been burning dvd's int he same way for the past 12 months using the exact same steps successfully.

I keep getting "error during rendering/encoding of menus/slideshows" message. I have been burning DVD's in exactly the same way for the past 12 months and mostly on my MacBook which is 3 years old. Obviously I'm using iDVD. I purchased an iMac about a year ago and moved to use this for dvd burning without problem. A few months ago (approximately) I started to experience problems with burning with the error message above. I tried everything including starting the whole process from scratch right down to capturing the movie clips from my video recorder into iMovie, then using them in iDVD. Still the same message came up. I lost count of how many times I repeated the process with different clips and variations and the same thing happened. This was also the case with my MacBook and my husband's iMac.
After taking both of mymac's tothe service centre, having new optical thingys put it and even a new hard drive on my iMac along with a new DVD burner the same thing happened. They told me it must be the process that I am using that is incorrect!
I took my 27" iMac to an apple shop and asked them to assist me while I use the same technique as I always had. The same message came up so they tried using my clips in one of their mac's. The same message. They tried it with different clips and the same message. The only way we could get theirs to work was with a magic DVD which did not produce what I needed and was limited with only one page.
I now cannot use any of my Mac's for the intended purpose that I bought them for - to produce good media for my work! It was suggested that I purchase some non Mac software to burn DVDs which defeats the object of having a mac with iDVD in my opinion. I have a book on iDVD which is very informative and have followed the process to the letter and checked all the trouble shooting and still no remedy. It was mentioned that an up-date may have caused the problem on all my macs.
I feel that this issue should be addressed by Apple as a matter of correctness.
I now find that on the net there are many posts in forums and such like with exactly the same (almost word for word) problems. Please Apple, keep/regain your good name and sort this out.
Jayne Connelly

Thanks Bengt W for your attention to this matter. So much appreciated. And thanks for putting me right on the aim of forums (new to this). Although, you may regret asking for more information. I've added everything I can below.
The process I used is as follows:
Import recorded clips of between 5 and 15minutes each from my video recorder into i
Edit the clips (remove unwanted start and endng)
Add title to front of clips
‘Share’ them to ‘movie’ (export using QuickTime)folder in .mov format individually
Open iDVD and ‘create new project’
Select ‘favourite’ theme that I have set up forall my work dvd’s (this has been used successfully many times and I’ve triedwithout using the favourite them).
Add 2 submenus for each group of clips
Select submenu - drag and drop between 3 – 6 clips in each of the twosubmenus
Change title colours on clips
Dragand drop image into drop zones where required
In‘map’ view I check for any yellow warnings before burning to disc
In an attempt to remedy the problems I’ve tried the following:
Try new DVD discs
Try different themes (favourites and standardones)
Change images in drop zones
Start whole process again even from importingfrom camera again
Two other completely different computers (iMacand MacBook) with iDVD
Go to apple shop and use their computers to doin iDVD
Try with one clip and no menu pages added
Use a clip that I already have that did notoriginate from my camera
Turn computer off and restart
New hard drive
New optical lense (thing)
New DVD burner
Saving to disc image rather than dvd disc
Other points:
I also have a ‘flip’ and ‘iPhone’ whereI’ve imported footage camera which, although limited, records and makes videoclips and burns them to DVD through iDVD without problem.
For example, I have just gone through steps 5 - 11 using some clips that were already imported from my iphone to iPhoto and dragged across. I used a theme that I've used before which has failed and added one sub menu page where the clip went. It burned to disc image successfully.
The startup disc, I believe will have no space issues asit’s a new hard drive with no use apart from this. That could have been an issue before (I didn’t check it) butnot now.
Other technical stuff that I don't understand but you may:
I have…… Mac OS X Version 10.6.7 with all updates onit. Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Corei7. Memory 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
iDVD version 7.1.1
HardwareOverview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM111.0034.B02
SMC Version (system):            1.54f36
OPTIARCDVD RW AD-5680H:
Firmware Revision:     3AHB
Interconnect:    ATAPI
Burn Support:   Yes (AppleShipping Drive)
Cache:    2048KB
Reads DVD:    Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write:   -R, -R DL,-RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO,CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: Toshow the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
If you can solve this you are better than the 'apple geeks' in the shop and the service technicians in the service centre (and of course me but that's no achievement).
Eagerly awaiting your reply.
Jayne

Error message during burning: Error during rendering/encoding

Hello,
I am using iDVD 6.0.2 to create a DVD. I have pictures and videos. The videos are in .ASF format and they are played on Quicktime on my computer.
Anyway, when I go to burn the DVD, it goes through the slideshow fine. But then, once it starts videos, it stops and the following error message shows up:
Encoding Video
Error during rendering/encoding
I am using a Memorex DVD-R (8x, 4.7 GB, 120 min video) dvd. Is there any way possible I can fix this problem? I really need this DVD soon. Thank you so much.

Best Buy and Office Depot carry Verbatim by me. Use only DVD-R, not DVD+R.
My guess is that .ASF file...........
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

Why is there an "error during muxing preparation?"

Suddenly I keep getting error messages in my iDVD 08 version 7.0.2 (1100). It was working fine a coupledays ago and then I upgraded to Snow Leopard (from 10.5.8 to 10.6.3) and I think at same time the install gave me QuickTime 10.0 (I had had QT 7.6.9 before). Now I’ve tried four short videos to burn DVD and each time I get the message “There was an error during muxing preparation (projection conversion).”I use Final Cut Express 4.0 and exported first via Quick Time movie and then via Mpeg4 to see if that made a difference. (It didn’t.) I’ve worked a long time to do a five-minute video on my eldest son to give him as a present, andnow I can’t burn it. Any and all help greatly appreciated. (BTW, on web, I saw that one issue might be I don’t have enough disc space, but I’ve got 101 GBfree, so that can’t be it.)
Desperate for advice... Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello, John.
Looks like there are some other posts on this and it could be related to chapter markers and transitions. Also, Quicktime is a "container" format and the underlying format (codec) could be part of the problem -- have you used that specific format and work flow previously?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6942255#6942255
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9946243#9946243
https://discussions.apple.com/message/5157904#5157904
John

GRRR! "There was an error during movie encoding"

I can't seem to compile and burn a DVD to save my life with iDVD. I have a video that I created and exported using iMovie and two shorter ones created in Photoshop CS6 — all three are the same encoding: 1920 x 1080, H.264, AAC, Color profile: HD (1-1-1). The one exported with iMovie is a .mov file and the other two are .mp4 files — none of them with any sort of copyright/permissions protection on them.
iDVD previews them all just fine, but EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to try and burn a DVD it gives me the above error message, "Encoding Video: There was an error during movie encoding" which tells me absolutely nothing. This might not stress me out so much if it were just a personal project, but rather it's for a friend's wedding that I shot and iDVD's failure to do a basic thing like encode video is really ticking me off.
I tried to localize the issue by trying to burn just the .mov file and then just one of the .m4v files — and have found it chokes on m4v files. Why is this so??
If I'm doing something wrong, the error message should give me a little more feedback than just "oh there was an error."

Hi
We are only Users - trying to help other users - rarely Apple or program developer drop in for a look so I would send feedback here
• www.apple.com/feedback/idvd.html
BUT as Apple discarded the product in all - can not even be bought any more - any further development is most certainly never to be.
But what You feed iDVD matters and - You and so many more has the idea that .mov or .m4v etc are movie formats/codecs - they are not - only containers - so to figure out what You give iDVD You need to find what's in them. I do like this
• Open them in QuickTime Player
• here open Inspector [cmd+I]
• read - Video Format/Codec: nnnnnnn
What does it say and in what frame rate (fps) ?
iDVD can only do good (very good) DVDs when feed
25 or 29.97 fps
interlaced SD-Video
So by feeding it 1920x1080 24fps - to make a NTSC (29.97fps) DVD - result will be very BAD. Conversion is of need. I use following programs to do this
• Frame Rate - JES_Deinterlacer
• MPEG Streamclip
• QuickTime 7.6 + Pro-upgrade
Yours Bengt W

IDVD "error during formatting"

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