IDVD error msg Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets

I get this error message on iDVD, does this mean I need to free up hard disc space... "Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets"

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  • Error msg: "Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets."

    I am trying to burn a DVD that includes a slideshow and short movie.  Total project is 3.5GB.  I am getting this error message:  "Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets."  My hard drive has 600 GB left.  Can anyone help?

    If you can't free up enough space by deleting items, get an external hard drive and move the files there. An absolute minimum of 25 GB is required by iDVD.
    arlenefromcary wrote:
      Is it possible to do this from another source?
    I'm not sure what you mean by that.
    mish

  • Im trying to burn an iDVD and its saying that there is not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets.

    Im trying to burn an iDVD and its saying that there is not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets. My main hard drive only has a few hundred Mb left on it so i bought a 1 Tb external hard drive and want to know how to make iDVD use the space on the external hard drive instead trying to use the main hard drive. Any help would be awesome! thanks

    Hi
    Yes - This is important.
    Free Space - Must be on the Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk and can not be used on any other.
    My safe level is a minimum of 25Gb free space - to let iDVD and Mac OS run OK.
    This is due to that Mac OS X is in reality UNIX and there by needs lot's of temporary space for temp. files and so does the application iDVD. And this can not be addressed elsewhere.
    So to free up space - one thing is to move iMovie Events to an external hard disk BUT THIS MUST BE DONE Right Else all can be lost ! !
    • Never move or adjust any folders Named - iMovie Events or iMovie Projects - on Desktop/Finder - links will breake and can be hard to impossibly to heal. ALL movings must be done within iMovie Application (it goes for iMovie'08 to 11)
    • External Hard Disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange will NOT WORK FOR VIDEO - nearly everything else BUT NOT VIDEO.
    Yours Bengt W

  • Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets?

    I know this will probably sound dumb, but I burned a dvd with less space this morning and now this is the message I'm getting for the same project and I have a little more than what I had last time. Can someone explain this or tell me what I can do? I'm not sure what else I can remove to free up more space at the moment.
    Thanks so much
    karen

    You will need at least 15 GB's of free space on the boot volume and hopefully you have more than this. If you have less then iDvd may have a number of issues in burning your dvd; or rather attempting to burn the dvd.
    If you do not have the available HD space, then you'll need to clear some items off the boot volume prior to burning to Dvd-R.
    Things to remove would be things like completed iMovie and iDvd project files. If you have a vast collection of music, photos & videos; burning them to dvd helps as does using Monolingual to clear languages other than English (if you can afford to do so). The latter will clear between 500 MB's to 2 GB's from the main HD depending on which languages are deleted. (I'd highly recommend NOT deleting English).
    http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/monolingual.html
    Message was edited by: SDMacuser

  • HT1583 I'm trying to burn a Magic DVD in iDVD and I get a message stating "not enough free disc space for encoding the remaining assets. How do I resolve this?

    I'm trying to burn a Magic DVD in iDVD and I keep getting a message stating that there is not enough free disc space for encoding the remaining assets. How do I resolve this?

    It means your hard drive is too full to accomodate the project and its many swap files etc.
    You need to move some files (not applications) to your external hard drive, and keep at least 25-30GB free.

  • Problem burning dvd, message not enough free disk space for encoding remaining assets

    I have never had a issue with burning dvd's before now I am getting an error message

    How much hard drive space do you have remaining?  How much data are you trying to burn (i.e. are you sure the capacity of the disc is high enough?)

  • Got error message "not enough free disk space to encode remaining assets"

    Although my media folder contains 32 GB for my iMovie project, and the hard drive says it has 39 GB free, it still give this message. I thought that would be adequate to burn the movie in iDVD. What is the problem?

    I need a couple more gigs on the volume the application was on
    Let me rephrase that:
    You need a couple more gigs on the volume your SYSTEM is on. (That's where the system puts all temp files it needs and where the apps put the temp files THEY need)

  • When attempting to burn a 1.2GB video using Magic DVD I get Burning Prep error. Not enough free disk space...... I have tried all I know to no avail. This have just started!!

    When attempting to burn a 1.2 GB video using iDVD I get a "Burning Preparation Error.. Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaing assetts" This has only justed started to happen.  I have used this programme many times before in the past. Can any one help as I have tried all I know?

    Yes, 44GB is sufficient. I don't think space is the problem.  I don't know about iMovie but iDVD can only use the boot drive for its scratch disk.
    You might be getting that error due to some damage file in the project.
    Try this basic troubleshooting fix :
    1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
         User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
    2 - delete IDVD'S cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
         User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iDVD folder. 
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    3 - launch IDVD and try again.
    Also run Disk Utility and verify the disk.  If errors are indicated you will need to boot iknto your system install disk and repair the disk with Disk Utility (see the Utilities menu in the first window after the language selection window).

  • "iDVD needs more disk space to encode the remaining assets"

    So I have to make copies of these counseling sessions that I'm doing for class and since I found out my Mac did not come with a DVD burner, I bought an LG External Super Multi DVD Rewriter. I used iDVD and created DVDs with my counseling sessions and was able to burn a couple that way. Then last week, I was going through my CDs in my Mac box and stuck the iLife CD in and it updated my applications. Since then, I've tried to burn a DVD from iDVD and it hasn't worked. A box comes up saying something like "not enough space for remaining assets" and when I click to get more information, it says "iDVD needs 7.765 GB of disk space to encode the remaining assets, but only 2.458 GB is available at "Macintosh HD".
    Did I mess it all up by what I thought was updating the software? What can I do??

    Hi - Double posting doesn't help - Medicine the same
    iDVD and Mac OS need space to work to swap theirs temp. files.
    My minimum is 25Gb free space on start-up hard disk - neither can use any other HDs
    but only 2.458 GB is available at "Macintosh HD"
    This is way to little - few things should be able to work and if so very slow and unstable.
    Free up more space.
    Yours Bengt W

  • I have an a burning preparation error that says Not enough free disnot k space for encoding the remaining assets. Is this because i don't have enough memory on my macbook?

    i have a burning preraration error that says not enough free space for encoding the remaining assets.  Is this error on my iDVD coming up because i dont not have enough space on my macbook?

    thank you

  • Not enough free disc space for encoding remaining assets

    I get this message when I try to print my DVD   "not enough free disc space for encoding remaining assets"
    Does this mean I have too much videos and material on the computer.  I have tried to delete several but it does not seem to be making any difference.  Please help/explain...  Thank you!
    I

    IDVD is limited by the duration of your movie and nothing else.
    A single layer DVD is good for about two hours.  A dual layer DVD is good for about three hours and 45 minutes.
    You do need a certain amount of free space to create DVDs.
    To burn your iDVD project to a single-layer DVD disc, you should have 8 to 10 gigabytes (GB) of free disk space on your hard disk, depending on the size of your project. For double-layer discs, you need 15 to 20 GB of free disk space. To check how much disk space you have, Control-click the hard disk icon on your desktop and choose Get Info. Then look next to Available to see how much space you have.
    The encoded DVD files remain on your hard disk inside your project’s folder. If you do not want to save the encoded files after you burn your project to a disc, you can delete them.

  • Download error message not enough free disk space

    hi
    i keep getting this error msg from all web browsers "could not download file because there is not enough disk space"
    i have repaired permissions and tried downloading to a different folder all to no avail and have plenty of disk space 50 gig
    if i log in to another account there is no problem downloading
    i am still able to download thing from itunes and software updates
    anyone know how to fix this problem?
    thanks
    chris

    I have the same error message but I can not save anything from word documents to pictures in photo booth, but I have 25.42 GB available out of 55.57 GB. I have tried deleting alot of stuff and changed the download file... nothing working
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  • HT2936 burning preparation error: not enough free disk for encoding the remaining assets

    Im ready to burn my movie to a dvd and this message appears, "Burning preparation error: Not enough free disk space for encoding the remaining assets." What does that mean or what do i have to do?

    Hi
    The free space on Your Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk (often named Macintosh HD) is near to full and iDVD and Mac OS needs lot's of space for their temp files. This can not be addressed to other devices - at all. It must be here.
    I never let it go less than 25GB free space.
    To free up space You need to
    • trash files You NEVER need any more
    • copy needed material to an external hard disk
    (If from iMovie - THEN DO NOT - move or alter any folder named
    - iMovie Event's - or -
    - iMovie Project's
    on DeskTop/Finder ! )
    ONLY - within iMovie Application
    ONLY to an external Hard Disk formatted as - Mac OS Extended (hfs) (mine are journaled) and I use FireWire ones as USB/USB2 performs badly - especially when filling up and if HD-Material is used.
    UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things BUT NOT FOR VIDEO
    How Much free space do You have ?
    Yours Bengt W

  • IDVD not enough free disk space

    iDVD is giving me the error: not enough free disk space for encoding assets when I try to burn a disk or create a disk image. After reading other posts the issue seems to be not enough memory on the computers hard drive, but there is 174.73 GB of space remaining...
    All of the files for the dvd (photos, imovie file, clips, music, ect) are saved on a thumb stick for security. I can't think of why it would not be able to burn.
    Any help would be much appreciated!
    Thanks!

    All of the files for the dvd (photos, imovie file, clips, music, ect) are saved on a thumb stick for security
    How much space is available on the thumb drive?
    iDVD may be using that disk for scratch, so it may need more space on this drive than is available. Off-hand I don't know of a way to change the scratch disk, beyond moving your source material to the main drive before you burn.

  • What does error message when trying to burn DVD from iDVD mean "not enough disk space to burn the remaining assets"

    I created a DVD in idvd and now when trying to burn to DVD using external burner, I get the error message
    "not enough disk space to encode the remaining assets". I am using a brand new blank DVD.
    I have read the help info on computer but hasnt proved helpful.
    Any suggestions?

    iDVD requires a fair amount of disk space to carry out the encoding process; depending on your project, you may need to have over 25 GB free space on your startup hard drive.  How much free space do you have?

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