IDVD multiple burn problems

We use IDVD to burn our imovie projects. My problem just recently is that when I want to burn a number of the same DVD project, the first one always burns fine and then one or two consectutive DVD's will burn without an error or quitting or just plain not burning the DVD. After that, it is a guess how many more we can burn. We usually end up quitting out of the DVD project and restarting. We then can get at least one more good burned DVD before we encounter troubles again. It is happening on two separate computers, so I'm thinking it is not a hardware issue. Has anyone encountered this problem? I'm wondering if dumping the cache on the machine or in the indivual account is the answer. Does anyone have a better idea?

Does anyone have a better idea?
Yes.
Create a disk image on your hard drive (it's in the Menu Bar - File>Create Disk Image)
Then use Apple's Disk Utility to create as may copies as you want using the disk image. See Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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You should always use a two-step process in creating DVDs out of iDVD.
Step One: Make your 'burn' to a disk image file on your hard drive. It's an option under FILE in iDVD. You can use Apple's DVD Player application to verify the DVD plays the way you expect.
Step Two: Actually burn the disk image file to writable media to create a DVD. Use Apple's Disk Utility (in your Utilities folder) or Roxio's Toast Titanium. Use good quality media (Maxell or Verbatim) and make your burn at a low speed (4x or lower). This will act to limit burn errors that cause the kind of problems you have been seeing.
In addition - and this is VERY important - allow some cool-down time between burns. The DVD burners in our computers are not designed with enough cooling for replication use and start to overheat after multiple burns. This will also cause the kind of burn-error problems you are seeing.
I know it seems this burning advice will slow down your burning process, but better 15 good discs done slowly than 15 coasters created in a hurry.
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Still having trouble.
I have been trying to burn a 2 hour 20 minute DVD for three weeks.
I have tried in iDVD 5 , where the progress bar would get to an 1/8 of an inch from the end and it would stop responding, with no success and now trying iDVD 6 to see if it is any better.
I have tried some things thing I found in the the discussion that made sense but still no sucess.
I have to mention here that I can burn this iMovie no problem with Toast 7 but it does not have all the cool things that iDVD has so I would like to get this going.
I notice in iDVD 6 I would get a message that I should switch to "Best Quality" to burn the DVD . I checked "Preferences" and it was set to Best Quality. Then I finally figured out that it was saying to change it in "Project Info" and when I did it was set to Best Performance and for a Single layer DVD. So I thought that was it. NOT! This may not be correct since I am trying to burn an image.
I tried to burn an Disc Image today and when I got home the Progress bar was at the end in the "Process Movie" phase. I checked the Activity Monitor which says that iDVD is not responding.
Can anyone help here? I am about to give up on iDVD period. Way too frustrating. Like I said , I can burn the same iMovie in Toast in 8 hours all day everyday. Not in iDVD 5 or 6.
Thanks
LargeAl

I tried to burn an Disc Image today
From what I've read here, that's not a good idea. Seems to be issues with the break point. Direct to DVD+R DL. I can't find anything from Apple to that effect though.
I have been trying to burn a 2 hour 20 minute DVD for three weeks.
Maybe it's time to break it into two projects...? Or shorten it to less than 2 hours?
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Self has a MacBook Pro, which al new software.
My problem is, when my burn a slideshow, prop process ever before burning.
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How did you create the slideshow and get it in iDVD?
As a general comment try following this workflow to separate the encoding and burning processes:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

Problem Using iDVD to burn a movie

Hi, I'm very new to Mac world and trying to learn.
Recently when I tried to use my iDVD to burn DVD, I faced a problem where even the Mac Support centre fail to help me.
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Can any expert can help me to resolve this issue so that I can burn my movie in DVD using the iDVD?
thanks for the advise.

Hi
1. To me DivX is a stranged format. I use only streamingDV QT.mov files as in iMovie
I drop the movie project icon into iDVD.
I would convert them to this.
2. iDVD doesn't care about Mb or Gbs on file size - only minutes in total including menu.
If it exceeds 60 or 120 minutes dep on quality encoding seleected there are problems.
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I've successfully burned multiple iMovie/iDVD discs without problem, but I've got 1 movie that repeatedly fails with strange errors.
I've optimized the startup drive, the directory of the startup drive and there's 20G free on that drive (and 80+ on the video drive). I also deleted the old plist for iDVD, and ran Cocktail to clear the caches, rebuild permissions, etc.
I tried this with both the iDVD preferences set for 'Best Quality' and then 'Best Performance' (no difference).
I took the original (created in iMovie 4.x), when it failed repeatedly, I recreated it from scratch in iMovie 5.02... no difference.
When I tried to burn it (multiple times), it came back with 'Burn Complete, Found Errors During Burn' (irony here, it hadn't burned ANYTHING, the disc was untouched). Click on error details, and it says 'error #1'.
It had completed rendering the movie.
I also tried saving the iDVD file as a disk image, and it also failed, with a different error (can't screeen capture the dialogs!)... something to the effect that it couldn't initialize the tracks (it had completely finished rendering the movie).
I had seen some mention of a problem with background audio on the DVD Menu, so I also tried it with that removed. No joy.
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Hi Simon,
If you'll read further back into the thread, you'll find that I've covered all known bases with this problem
I am indeed running the most current version, kept on scaling the size of the project smaller, I deleted the plist file for iDVD, ran Cocktail on the disk, etc. etc. etc.
I am now recreating the whole $%^&* thing from scratch again, and I'm crossing my fingers. One thing is for certain, it's NOT an issue of free disk space on the startup drive! This error occurs whether saving to disc image or actually burning the disc.
I was fortunate enough to check the system as it was in the last phases of encoding (audio at that point, and it failed at the end of the audio) and that's when I got the error.
This problem is specific to iDVD, Toast 6.x and now 7.x work just fine.
This is starting to become painfully embarassing to this MacEvangelist
I wonder if DVD Studio Pro ever does this?
Regards,
Bruce

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i have burned movies successfully many times. i make them in imovie and then burn via idvd. i just finished one that is 1 hour and 8 minutes long. i chose share -- then idvd to burn. however, when i attempt to burn, and am prompted for a disc, i put it into the drive and it spins for a while, then spits out the disc and i get a message that says "no recordable disc in the drive. insert recordable disc." i have a box of new recordable discs that i have never had a problem with. they are verbatim dvd-r 16x 4.7 gb/120 minutes of video. i keep unwrapping one and trying it -- but i get the same error message and now i have tried unsuccessfully with six new discs. i don't know what to do. the drive seems to be functioning correctly. it reads other dvd's and cd's. anyone have any help, thoughts, suggestions? thanks in advance!

You may also wish to make sure your Mac is fully ready -- I use MacJanitor (get from VersionTracker) to trigger all the maintenance scripts and then Repair Permissions with Apple's Disk Utility.
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Hi
If You want the quality a DVD can hold (interlaced SD-Video Quality at it's best) then
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Welcome to iDVD Discussions.
That may be a media/burning speed issue.
I recommend a disk image burned to Verbatim DVD-R at 4X or slower using Toast or Disk Utility.
David Pogue also recommends Verbatim on page 356 of his latest book:
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
Quoting David: "Cheaper brands don't use the same amount of organic dyes and are more likely to suffer premature deaths."
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

IDVD 5-burning a large project

I am burning an iMovie project that is a little over an hour and a half (1:34) onto a single layer DVD (4.7 GB). iDVD is saying the project is too long. I have burned projects very close to 2 hours long in the past on previous versions of iDVD with no problems. This is my first project of this length on iDVD 5. Any suggestions as to why I might be having this problem? I really wanted to avoid having to go to double layer DVD's and I don't want to lose quality. Thanks.

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Mpeg2 files converted to DV files..how do I "share" with iDVD for burning?

Newbie question here...thanks for all the great info I have found here already...but need some more. I'm using an iMac with OS X 10.4.7, QT Pro, downloaded MPEG StreamClip, and purchased MPEG Playback as suggested on this board.
Here's the situation:
I have analog Hi8 Sony camcorder (CCD-TRV98) with NO USB, firewire, etc. connection...just good ol' SVideo. Was able to "capture" old home movies using analog to digital coverter through my Windows Desktop. Saved files in mpeg formats and avi formats on external hard drive.
Plugged external hard drive via firewire port on iMac. I can play the movie files in Streamclip and can "convert" to DV files...and I can import them into iMovie fine....but when I try then "share" with iDVD the program encodes for literally hours....i finally gave up for a tiny movie after 2 hours of "encoding"....think this is a problem with my rookie status of using iMovie, or are my files a problem? Does the fact that I'm saving the files off a Desktop and using on Mac matter? If I'm converting the files to DV in Mac, would the Desktop influence even matter? (Are you rolling your eyes at me yet? R-O-O-K-I-E here and I know it, but hey I'm trying!
Hope I have explained my situation well...if not let me know what I left out. I could really use the help...I have 30+ Hi8 movies that I want to burn to DVD for family and archiving purposes.
Thanks,
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7) iDVD,

the combo Streamclip + Apple plug-in is the most recommended here...
yepp, iMovie "prefers" dv only... relying on the QTengine, it can import some other formats/codecs... as mpeg4, you could be lucky, to make it accept an .avi container with the right codec inside...
.avi is a PC media container, as .mov in the Apple world: just a "wrapper", containing maning codecs, formats, standards, not-so-standards...
so, if your Windows app allows export as ".avi, codec dv", it should work... there's no 100% gurantee with that PCMac swapping....
how can I get iMovie to "share" with iDVD for burning? iDVD will not open the movie made in iMovie....?
now that a new - and surprising! - topic...
you have some options, how to share to iDVD:
* inside iM there's a iDVD button under the pane... (I don't own iM6...)
* you should safe your project into the Movies folder, then launch iDVD, create new project, in the media bin/movie you should find your movie...
* create new iDVDproject and drag'n drop project from Finder/Movies into iDVD window....
I asked you, to tell us your free disk space on internal drive... see my last post... please tell us... , a 2min project should be rendered in a few minutes...
did you read the turtorials before using the iApps?
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials
coming from the PC world, some workflows differ..
we MacUser say: are easier to accomplish.. ;-))
Plan B)
... in case, you own a miniDV camcorder, playout files from PC to tape, then import as usual into iM/iDVD... digital copies, no loss in quality..
good luck
thanks for usage of forum's marker feature ...!

Seriously feeling dumb here...burning problems!

Ah I am so thick! Okay, so I've been going through all of these past threads about people with burning problems but I feel as if I'm missing something here because nothing seems to be working out for me with iDVD.
So, I have created a movie off of iDVD that is only about 3 minutes long, with transitions and titles and so on. I have archived it. I have deleted all past movies I have archived as well as purged my computer of alot of old stuff I don't need anymore (I have a lovely old eMac...) I have bought DVD-R's, (not the +R's which I mistakenly bought before the threads told me they don't work...) and this is what happens...I will press burn. iDVD's window flashes from my movie into a window that is just a black background with the iDVD icon in the bottom center, and almost immediately flashes back to my movie with no pop-up warnings or anything. Also in the past it has said there was some kind of a multiplexer error or whatever, but that pop up has since been gone from the problem.
I would really love to transfer this short film to this DVD-R so I can view it on my lovely DVD player for all my friends.
Any pointers all you smart DVD people!??
Thanks, Kate (the dumb cinema student...oy vey.)
By the way, if it helps with anyone's answer, I have an eMac, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4.

Hi Kathryn
How much RAM do You have ?
How much free space on Your hard disk ?
What version of QuickTime ?
Have You been able to burn DVDs before ?
May be You could do like this (if You have an internal DVD-burner)
- Close iMovie
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in the Share to iDVD folder
- Start iDVD and drop this "project name".mov file inside the edge of
a theme window in iDVD
- Now try to play this - OK ?
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Yours Bengt W

Multiple burns on a disk using Disk Utility??

Hi,
I found these notes about doing multiple burns on a disk (see below and it mentions changing the extention name to .img so that disk utility will give you the make disk appendable option.
I understand all that but my question is will this change the ability of the file to open in a new or old Mac (I have an old iMac G3 slot loading, PowerbookPC G4, and the new intel C2D 17"? My assumption is it will be fine in a new Mac but what about my older G3? I want to burn a disc and leave it appendable but am afraid by changing it to .img it won't open in the G3.
Thanks,
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1. Collect the material you want to burn in a folder on your Desktop. Open Disk Utility.
2. Select Disk>New>Disk Image from the Folder menu. Use the dialog box to navigate to the folder you have created on your Desktop, and select "Image." Name your new image, select a destination for the new file, and click "Save." Your file name should end in .img.
3. Back in Disk Utility, click the toolbar "Burn" button, navigate to the disk image you just created, selected, and click "Burn." Another dialog box will appear. Click the blue triangle but in the upper right hand corner. The dialog box will expand, giving you an additional selection of options. Click "Leave disk appendable," then click the "Burn" button to initiate the burn.
4. When you want to add a subsequent burn to that disk, repeat the process described above, but in the final dialog box, you will then see an "Append" button instead of a "Burn" button. This process can be repeated until there is no more free space left on the disk to create appended sessions.

I don't know if these are helpful to your discussion.
From System Profiler;
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846:
Firmware Revision: FB2U
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Also an Apple KB article;
Factors that affect writing to or reading from optical media

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