IDVD in iMovie is greyed out?

I'm trying to burn a movie to disc but the option to go to iDVD in iMovie is greyed out? Anyone seen anything like this before??
cheers

The answer is simple. Just add a one second jpg to the end of your movie. Simplest is to use a freeze frame from the ending credits (right-click on the frame you want and select Add Freeze Frame). iMovie creates a freeze frame with a 4 second default. You can easily change that to 1 second with the clip adjuster. iMovie is full of these stupid work arounds, you'd think Apple would fix them in an update...but thank God folks are posting them. Good luck.

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