IDVD Won't burn - project too big

Okay I've looked at other posts but I don't think my project is too long. The imovie is only 37:00. After exporting to iDVD it creates a Quick time .mov file. When trying to burn the dvd, the error msg. reads "7.4 gig file is too big for 4.2 gig disc " Should I be compressing somewhere?
G4 Dual 867 Mac OS X (10.4.2) 512 mg ram

welcome macplebe to the  boards ...
save your project in the "Movies" folder
launch iDVD
under media, choose your movie...
no export, no compression, no .mov ... needed...-
indeed, iDVD accepts projects of <120min...

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I am taking my VHS home movies and converting them to DVD via iMovie and iDVD. I have been putting four tapes (they are short) on one DVD. The longest total amout of time for any four tapes combined is about 90 minutes. I've done about six so far all exactly the same way. Now all of a sudden, when I've put five chapters (from iMovie) instead of four I get a message that I've exceeded the maximum for the DVD. That is not true, it is only 87 minutes. I have changed the preferences to NOT limit me to 60 minutes (whichever one that is) and I still get the same messaage. I have taken my project down to two chapters totalling about 25 minutes and I still get the same message: that it is too much. I've tossed the .plist for both iMovie and iDVD. Done a restart. Still it persists. It will not burn a DVD of any size because it thinks (falsely) that it is too big. Can anyone help? I need the chapters, by the way, so exporting it as one QT movie is out. I could export it as five QT movies and then assemble it in iDVD, but that is too much trouble. It was working so well. I'm using iDVD 4.01 and iMovie 4. Thanks in advance.
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No, I didn't want to "spank" anyone. I received the same response from different posts. Everyone wanted me to check the preferences, etc. I suppose it is a fairly common problem that has a very common fix. My problem was different. I appreciate the help.
In the end, I suppose I should get the "spanking". I assumed that iDVD would only burn the chapters I selected. To make a long story short, I had five movies in iMovie, but I only placed three of them into iDVD as chapters. I forgot that iDVD would not make a distinction. It would always try to cram the entire movie onto a DVD.
My bad. It works fine now! By the way, I use a device made by Formac. Go to:
http://www.formac.co.uk/html/products/av/stud_1.htm
They sell it in North America, too, although it is a UK link.
Thanks,
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I have a 15 minute video in widescreen format that is about 400 megabytes in size according to the project info.
When attempting to burn, I am told that the project size is too big for a DVD and suggests I use a dual layer DVD.
I have over 390 gig available on my 1 TB hard drive.
I have no chapter markers
I have reduced the intro clip(s) to less than 30 seconds.
All to no avail. I am now burning the dvd using Toast, which is perfectly happy using 400 megabytes of my DVD to burn the disk.
What assets could iDVD possibly be adding to use up the remaining 4 gig of disk space, and how might I view them and delete them?
I know this is an old topic...I've read lots of posts including one similar to mine. In most cases people are attempting to burn over 1 hour of video. In the one case similar to mine, the person had full length video in each chapter marker (or some such issue). I have none.
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Hi
Free space only referes to Start-up (boot) hard disk. iDVD can't use any other for scratch files.
25Gb is my minimum setting.
15 minutes video - to much indicates that it might have been droped it into iDVD window
but here landed it into a "button area" - not movie area.
Recommendation in case of this is to move it out (or start a new iDVD project)
and in iDVD use the Import function instead. Now it lands where it should.
And dep on Your encoding choise the movie can be up to 60 or 120 minutes long
(menu included => simple menu = more movie)
Other alternative is feeding iDVD strange video formats that can give many
interesting problems eg .wmv, .avi, .mpeg4 etc.
Yours Bengt W

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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.
Quit all apps and restart the Mac.
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Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964>
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Hi
What am I doing wrong?
Yes - how about do You think we will know ?
When You feed us no info at all !
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• What theme did You select to use ?
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• Any Music/Audio on theme MENU ?
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• What type of DVD did You use ?
• What Encoding Quality did You use ?
• Free Space on Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk - How Much ?
• Version of iDVD ?
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Do you not get this dialogue box?
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Hi
Exactly as Shippey writes.
After You done the Disk Image.
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In despair - this might occasional work on a Memorex - no guarantee though.
Yours Bengt W

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To do test with DVD-RW and avoid burning coasters DVD-R, you have to trick iDVD4.
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Man, you're about the millionth person to post an error #1. Search the group for possible solution(s).
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
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Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (not the .img, the one below) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. Your SuperDrive tray will open. Insert a recordable DVD. (DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. 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 Tiger.
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Try Verbatim DVD-R rather than Sony.

Suddenly iDVD won't burn my movie.

Today I tried to burn a copy of a movie I've made with a Memorex DVD-R, and it says the project is too large; that I have to insert a double layer DVD. The confusing part is I burned three DVDs of the project with the same type of disc yesterday and they all came out fine. Has anyone encountered a similar problem/does anyone know how to fix it?
Message was edited by: Paynegwynn

Welcome to the forums.
One way to reduce the errors in burning DVDs is to use the Save As Disk Image option in iDVD. This separates the burning process into two steps and also makes it easier to burn copies. Even at this stage, you may wish to use Disk Utility to make a disk image and see if that makes more consistent copies.
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