IDVD multimediaimporter not responding fix

when i burn a dvd from IDVD 6. it goes though the process completes then ejects with nothing on the disk… Then I go to file > force quit > multimediaimporter (not responding).
How do I repair it?

Hi
A. Force quitting - is a problematic action - YES I get it that in some cases there are no alternative - but every-time it is used it also introduces small errors on Your Hard Disk - building up to a major disaster.
To avoid this I do after each such incidense.
- Repair Permissions (Disk Util tool)
- Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - BUT to do this Mac has to be started-up from DVD or external hard disk)
B. Why You don't get a working DVD
- most probably iDVD pref or cache file's got corrupted
To find out if this is the problem - Start a new User Account / Log into this / Re-try iDVD and see if it now works OK
- but it can also be - LOW free space on Start-Up Hard Disk - I never let this go less than 25Gb when using SD-Video material (if HD-material 4 - 5 times more is a safe low limit)
- Brand of DVD used - several do not work as VIDEO-DVDs e.g. Memorex, NoName etc - I only use Verbatim
- Type of DVD used - DVD+/-RW usually DO NOT work - I only use DVD-R
- BURN SPEED - I set to x2 or MAX x4
- I USE a CLEANING DVD (no liquid but the one with brushes) from time to time.
- Material feed into iDVD also matters: Video-CODECS, Photo and Audio file formats - also can give iDVD problems.
So PLEASE - tell what You feed iDVD - How You set it up (DV,HDV,WIDESCREEN etc), Encoding method selected, Theme used, Brand of DVD dissk etc etc.
DID YOU TRY: Save as a DiskImage ? If so - HOW does this play ? (Most of us do this to be sure where problems might arise)
Yours Bengt W

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Hi
Force quitting - No good strategy - at all.
*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
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• 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.
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Hey New User here
Actually I had a G4 desktop and have just upgraded to the MacProBook Core Duo 2.
Ok here is the issue- over the weekend I had create these movies in iMovie. The first one was 33 minutes with audio and ken burns effects, still photos, transitions and video clips.
It took about 2.5 hours to finish rendering, encoding and finally burn.
The second of the two films also had the same things but is 55 minutes long. This one I spent several hours allowing it to do its encoding and rendering- maybe 4-5. It went through everything but then never burned the disk. I had to stop the process b/c I needed to present the movie at that point.
Based on the previous posts I have read it seems that my computer does not take as long to do the processing as many others.
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Hi John
Two things.
Coding - processing time: Greatly depends on CPU speed, free amount of space
on Your internal hard disk and complexity of the movie.
- free space should be about 25Gb, 5 or less Gb = redicolous times (not hours but days)
- one still photo for 1 hour = less complex than 60 min of panorerings and
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ActivityMonitor - lies reg what's happening during audio coding part of DVD
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As Rich says:
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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.
Sooner or later iDVD will finish!
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I own both a powerbook G4 and Mac Pro, and network the two sometimes in order to switch files back and forth as necessary to take things on the road.
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