IDVD & iMovie quit during encoding

I have 13 clips in my project that run a total of about 1:40 and there is 3.89 GB of space on disk. I have not had this problem before with it unexpectedly quitting. Do I need more disk space?

Definitely! I would say 10GB is about minimum, more is even better. Keep in mind that when all is said and done, iDVD will have roughly 4+ GB of stuff ready to be burned to the DVD, so it needs a place to store that 4+GB and in addition it needs additional scratch disk space to do its thing. On top of that, the operating system needs free drive space as well to do its background stuff (scratch space, caches, and other temporary files).
In general, you should use hard drives past about 85% of their capacity and with iDVD encoding you want at least a good 10GB free to work with on your boot volume.
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