IDVD keeps reporting Burn Error #-1

Question

Ok, I've checked previous posts regarding Burn errors, only found one relating to error 1 which said it was due to audio overrun on the movie.
My question is how does this occur when the movie and audio are imported together? The audio has not been extracted and the end of the film has been edited out. (Split video at current frame, and move excess not required out of the timeline)
This has been ongoing now for three weeks. This is what I have done:
1. Imported hi-8 90 min movie from camera thru Canopus ADVC55 into iMovie. (First time this was done got one clip, second time got two clips but first was over 60min, last time I restricted import to max 50min clips). Project is located on my external WD MyDisc reformatted for HFS. Cleared 50Gb of free space from Macintosh startup drive.
2. Added clips to timeline. Saved three frames as JPEG's to use in iDVD menu. No chapter markers, transitions etc. just the raw movie. Saved iMovie project
3. In iDVD created a new project (on Wd drive same directory as iMovie project) set the theme to Scrapbook (V5.0 theme) edited the drop zone to add the JPEGS saved earlier
4. Added the movie file from the Media page and dragged the movie onto the menu.
5. Edited the title on the menu.
6. Save iDVD project
7. Save as Disk Image on WD external drive (same directory as iDVD project)
8 Encodes for 3 hours and comes up with error, haven't managed to catch the change from Encoding movie to encoding audio to see if it gets past this.
9. Repeated exercise using 5 min movie. This worked fine.
10. Trashed iDVD preferences - no effect
11. Trashed iMovie, iDVD and Quicktime - reloaded iMovie and iDVD from installation disks and downloaded Quicktime. Rebooted - no effect.
12. Shut down and reconfigured my set-up. WD HDD was at end of Firewire chain
MAC->USB Hub (2 FW)->Iomega HDD->Lacie d2 DVD writer->WD HDD
to
MAC->USB Hub->Iomega HDD->WD HDD
anything else i can try?

Answer 1

Hi
a. Yes it most often was related to stray audio fragments outside movie duration
but it is a general error so there might be many more origins
b. USB-hubb FW (FireWire connections) Sounds strange to me but might fall back to my ignorance.
I would try to keep as few item connected as possibly and stay away from any form
of Daisy Chaining.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named: com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Yours Bengt W