IDVD ghost in the machine!

Question

I imported my iMovie to iDVD and it was exactly the way I wanted it to be. But upon previewing it in iDVD there is a strange 3 second visual 'still' that appears in the same place every time. It's all gray with black vertical broken lines, squares and dots.
It's not in the original at all and it's nothing that I put in there. I've re-imported the movie to iDVD but the strange picture still appears. How do I get rid of it? What the **** is it? It only appears in iDVD mode. It does not appear in iMovie mode. re-importing does not help.

Answer 1

Not sure if this will solve your particular prob (trashing prefs, as suggested, is also a good idea) but this sometimes help:
1)To create a disc image, once you have your iDVD project the way you want, use Save As Disc Image under the File submenu. It will now go thru all the encoding as normal, (you don't need to insert a DVD) but instead of burning the project,it will create a dmg disc image file to a spot of your choice
2) Once you have your disc image, you can open it in your Mac's Disc Utility (Applications>Utilities>Disc Utilities). There, you will see a Burn button; it will ask you to point it to your saved Disc Image. Follow directions to burn the DVD (this will be speedy since you have already done the encoding)
Again, not sure if this will help with your particular issue, but it sometimes help to eliminate certain iDVD insecurities