IDVD Freezes when Rncoding Audio

I have been trying to burn a movie created in iMovie HD. Everything goes well through to the end of "Encoding Video". When the program starts to encode audio it locks up.
Any suggestions? Thanks ...

Hi Leo,
Just as a guideline how long are you waiting before considering it as "locked up"? If iDVD is set as Best Quality in the preferences, depending on the size of your movie it can take literally hours to encode. To get the project to encode in the background while you are working you can choose Best Performance from the preferences instead and check the background encoding box.
Try kicking it off before you go to bed and see if it worked by the morning. If you don't want to waste disks you can choose "File --> Save As Disk Image" and this will write an img file instead. Theoretically if the image saves a DVD should burn from the project also.
Hope this helps.

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Like I said!
This question is frequently asked!
iDVD is probably not 'hanging'. Disregard any messages that iDVD is not responding. It is. Do not force quit.
Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and can take many hours. Great patience, even an intermittent alternative hobby, is called for.
Make sure no other application is running, make sure you have not set the hard disk to go to sleep and that the screen saver will not come on. Leave it overnight, or have a 36 hole game of golf.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=494268&tstart=0
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