IDVD won't burn discs

When burning a project to disc it goes through all encoding alright until it comes to the last step: as soon as it hits ‘multiplexng/burning’ IDVD quits. I am left with nothing but an empty, untouched DVD in my (internal) burner.
Can anyone enlighten me please?

what external devices are currently connected to your mac?
tell me what you've tried so far?
what kind of media did you use?
have you tried a simple restart of your mac with no external 3rd party devices connected?
and have you tried using Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R?
How much available HD space is remaining on the startup volume / HD?

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First of all I'm new to this so if I've missed out any info please let me know. I've always downloaded a lot of films and in the past, have had no problem burning them to discs since I got my mac in 2006. I used to burn them using the "Create New Project" and add in movie, sort menu's etc, but after a while I realised there's no point in all that cause it takes longer and all I really want is the movie on a disc anyway. So I started using the "One Step DVD from Movie" and I would make the discs that way, which I never had any problems with either. I hadn't made any DVDs for a while, possibly 3 or 4 months and when I tried the other day it seems to go through the movie ok, converting the video and audio and then goes to burn the disc, which is where I have the problem. It normally goes to writing video out and things like that but the last couple of times I have tried to burn discs it goes to that as usual then spits out the DVD before going through the entire process. I then have to cancel the process and the DVD I was trying to burn is no longer usable because it seems to have written parts of the movie to it, but not the full movie so it's not possible to watch on a DVD player or even in the mac DVD player. It's very strange, I don't get any error message or anything coming up, it just spits out the DVD and then iDVD freezes and I have to force quit out of it. I'm wondering if it's maybe the version of iDVD that's the problem. Obviously as I've not used the iDVD for a while it will have been automatically updated via the Software Update which I run at least once a week. I'm unsure of the version the last time I used it to make a DVD but the version I have now seems to be the latest one for my system (version 6.0.4). After a few unsuccessful tries at making the DVDs using the One Step DVD, I tried to do it by creating a project first, but it seems to do the exact same thing, go through the whole process (which takes about 2 hours, sometimes longer) and then burn only part of it then I can't use the disc again. Please help, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Debz

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Hello, DT,
Welcome to the discussions.
First, no, iDVD is not supposed to work like that :)!
Things to do that may help:
Delete iDVD's preference files. Close iDVD.
Go to your Home(icon with your user name)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag this plist to the trash. Don't worry. iDVD will create a new fresh one when you relaunch it.
Repair permissions on your hard drive. Again, close iDVD and other open apps. Open Disk Utility(in Applications/Utilities). Make sure the 'First Aid' button is selected, highlight your computer drive's name, and choose to repair permissions.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
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What am I doing wrong?
Yes - how about do You think we will know ?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
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sherryle wrote:
what is a screen shot?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_shot>
Read the intro and the Mac OS X section. When you compose a post, you may add a screen shot by clicking the camera button and following the instructions.
Under the cricumstances, I think it's better to start a little further back.
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Drag your movie to the "Drop Movies Here" strip.
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Now choose File > Burn DVD… Make sure the DVD you insert is indeed a DL (it should be marked as such, and the label should say something like "8.5GB data").
If it fails as before, you should return to the project window. This time, choose File > Save as Disc Image… Save it to a convenient location.
Open Disk Utility. Choose Images > Burn…, select the image saved in the previous step, and try to burn it. If it works, then the problem is with iDVD. (Keep in mind that a DL disc burned with Disk Utility may not work or may cause problems in a DVD player. This is only a test to try to isolate the problem.)
If it doesn't work with Disk Utility either, then the problem is with the drive or the disc. Reset the SMC and try again.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964>
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Hello,
I am trying to burn a fcp 5 project onto a dvd+r with idvd. the project previewed fine in the idvd, but when i put the dvd in, it says it can't read the dvd and that there's nothing in the drive. The dvds are brand new and have never been used. I burn cd in itunes fine, any suggestions?

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Message was edited by: Paynegwynn

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