Idvd project freezes in prview

My iDVD projects freezes on image 66 of 70 and some images jump to the next instead of the transition. I had some exellent advice of Duane and followed his advice. I've also reinstallled iDVD, all to no avail. Anybody got any further ideas, please.
Since I posted this I realised that when it freezes, after a wait, up pops the box telling me the modem has connected successfully. Any connection do you think? (pardon the pun, unintentional)

Don't have a specific answer to your question but my standard list of things to do first...
Run MacJanitor (free download) to do all the Unix Cron Maintenance scripts.
Run Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities) and repair disk permissions on your start up drive (typically your internal drive). Also verify any other drives mounted on the system.
Run Preferential Treatment (free download) to check for corrupt/damaged application and system preference files.
Run Cache Out X (free download) to clear all system and application caches.
Reboot your Mac.
Patrick

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I hope someone can help:
According to my Project Info, the "Duration" is 97:26, Video Mode is NTSC, 16:9, and "Best Quality." The project gets off to a roaring start. No Problems.
Then when it hits the "Audio Encoding" portion, iDVD stops responding and FREEZES. HELP!!! I've tried this three times, and I've recreated the project twice.

Jamie, I have always enterpreted Force Quit as asking me whether an application is not responding, and do I therefore want to quit it. I say this because, having quitted the application I accused of not responding, I am then given a list within Force Quit of all other open applications in case I want to quit them as well.
Have you tried leaving iDVD to get on with it for a couple of hours, just to see if it actually ever completes the job of audio encoding?
What I do, when I get to the burn stage, be it as disk image or actual burning of a DVD, is quit all other application I had open, and just leave it to get on with it - like I said, overnight if it is a longish project. I have so far made around 35 DVDs of old (going back up to 20+ years) family tapes from either VHS, or the original analogue camera tapes. I generally limit these to 90 minutes or so after re-editing, cleaning up, adding music or whatever, in iMovie, I then save the project (for probably the 25th time) and close iMovie, then open iDVD, import the iMovie after I have decided on what theme I am using, made sure that the chapters work, saved the iDVD project and then set it to save as a disk image which, after a few tweaks in myDVDedit, are sent off to Toast for burning. Each time (until I decided to go to bed and leave the iMac to deal with it) I was amazed at how long the audio rendering took - easily as long as the video rendering.
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Quite how audio is 'rendered' passeth all understanding (by me) but it clearly takes almost as long. An interesting experiment would be to make a test movie of exactly 60 minutes in length and not importing the entire sound track except for, say ten minutes, and then see exactly how long that took to render. We would then have some kind of yardstick of how long each project might take to complete!

IDVD constantly freezes when trying to start a project

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6652.html

Urgent help needed - deadline - iDVD project suddenly gone corrupt?

Ive literally finished and ironed out the problems Ive had with a big Dual Layer project Ive been working on for 2 weeks.
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The project encoded - and then right at the end - it just ejected the blank CD and stopped...
here is a picture of the resulting iDVD screen.
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If I press the 'cancel' button iDVD says 'cleaning up' and just sits there doing nothing. It does not register as 'not responding' in the 'force quit application menu' - but nothing happens.
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This is very annoying,
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Thanks for your help Richard. I have exported the movie to idvd and that works, the thing is I want to be able to add other movies from i movie into the same dvd.
For example if I export my movie (of pics and videos) to idvd then try to export another it gets sent to a new idvd project and no the one I had previously exported to.
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My iDVD burning freezes

When it comes to burning my iDVD project it works fine until it reaches "coding sound". Then the application freezes and the only way out is to force ending the project. I´ve managed to burn the whole process earlier. Why not now? Can anybody give me a hint? Where do I start searching?
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I am creating an idvd project with multiple imovie projects. I know I need to share my imovie project with Idvd. WEhen I do that, idvd automatically opens. Now I want to add a second project. The problem is that when I share imovie projects a second time, it automatically opens a second idvd project. I want to add multiple imovie projects on one idvd project.

One should not share directly to iDVD from iMovie. The Share ➙ Media Browser option should be used as that results in a better quality movie in iDVD. Do the same for both movies and you can drag the movies from the Media ➙ Movies pane in iDVD into the DVD menu window at the left.
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Can iDVD 09 open and work with an iDVD project i made in 06?

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I recently wiped my partition and reinstalled all my apps.
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To quote Rich839:
I would start with deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist found in User(the house icon)/Library/Preferences. iDVD will replace that file on relaunch. To do a permissions repair, open Disk Utility found in Applications/Utilities. Select your hard drive icon displayed at the top of the left hand pane, and then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait a few minutes while permissions are repaired, and when finished, launch iDVD and see if you still have the problem.
Last suggestion: Try adding a new user account with the authors name of the original iDvd project file.
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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If/When someone takes my .img file and puts it on their computer how do they copy it? Do they need burning software?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
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Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced two-pass technology to encode your video (The first pass determines which parts of the movie can be given greater compresson without quality loss and which parts can’t. The second pass then encodes those different parts accordingly) , resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned about the time taken.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

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