Idvd not burning

i have used dcp and used quick time conversion into imovie and then brought into idvd, the final result was noting, it did the whole process and at the end said the process is done, but the dvd is empty and i can not close the idvd unless i quit the program, what do you think it is?

Stephen,
Welcome to the iDVD forum.
I did create a disc image, that worked...do I drag the disc image file to a DVD?
Open Disk Utility (DU) in Applications/Utilties. Drag the image you made into the lower left column of the DU window. Select the image after dragging, then click "burn" at the upper left.
See Disk Utiltiy Help for more info, look for "wroking with disk images"
John B
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