IDVD5 and Power Calibration Area Error

In an effort to burn a Maxell DVD-R from iDVD, I receive the following error message just as the burn process completes:
The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)
1) I visited the Apple Store and the genius ordered and installed a new dvd burner
2) The new burner has the exact same error
3) I've search around the internet and realize that I'm not alone. Aparently many have seen iDVD show this error with one unusual means to fix the error. One fix was to burn the image to an external drive and then use the disk utility to burn the dvd. Apparently the issues seemed to be iDVD.
4) I've burned many DVDs with the same project to the same brand of DVD-R in the exact same manor that I tried here.
5) I have iDVD 5.0.1, a new Powerbook 15", and OS X 10.4.2.

I still have the same problem with iDVD 5, Toast 7 Platinum, DVDSP, and even recording my project into a .img file and using Disk Utility, so I don't think the problem is related to a particular app, but to Mac OS X, and not even a hardware or media problem as I've previously used this brand to burn like 50 DVDs without problems (Verbatim DVD-R) and in two days I've had like 15 coasters with this project with both Verbatim and Samsung DVD-Rs.
Here is the error log:
iDVD: Burn started, Fri Dec 30 20:38:24 2005
iDVD: Burning to DVD-R media with DAO strategy in PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 X227 via ATAPI.
iDVD: Requested burn speed was 1x, actual burn speed is 1x.
iDVD: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iDVD: Write (10), block: 768, count: 64 -> 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
iDVD: Burn failed, Fri Dec 30 20:39:56 2005
iDVD: Burn sense: 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
iDVD: Burn error: 0x8002006E The burn failed because of a medium write error.

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Error Code When Burning (Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)

I've been searching for answers to my problem and it seems like this problem has randomly popped up for many others like it has for me.
A month ago I randomly started getting this error code Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.) when I tried to burn dvds in DVD Studio Pro. When I try to burn a DVD just from the finder options I get this error Code (Error code 0x8002006D)
But CD's burn fine for me.
I have been using the exact same discs that were able to burn before. They are 16x speed Memorex.
I tried relaunching the finder. I bought a Disc Cleaner today and i bought some 8x speed DVD's. I cleaned the Burner and I was able to successfully burn a 8x cd but still not the 16x.
Does anyone know the cause of this error code? Why would it just randomly happen?

Hi:
Check this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1054119
You can use this link ** Media Brand vs. Manufatrurer Brand ** to learn about your media quality.
Hope that helps !
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Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.) for my DVD burner

My dvd drive was working just fine then the other day I went to burn a dvd using idvd studio pro (like I always do) and it started burning, then about 2 minutes into the burn I got an error message stating that the burn failed due to a "Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)" then th disk just spit out of the drive. I dont know what this is or how to fix it. can anyone help??

Welcome to the discussions!
Usually this pops up when your drive does not like the disk itself. Try either a different blank or a different brand disk.
I use only TDK and Fuji disks and I have never received that error and never burned a bad disk either.

Power calibration area error (0x73, 0x03.) ??? HELP!

At the beginning of iDVD writing the lead-in on a burn, I am encountering “errors were found during the burning process”.
The explanation is- “The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)”
Then I get a second window that reads- “MULTIPLEXER ERROR - There was a problem during multiplexing/burning.”
Can anyone answer this problem?

Hi Jeff
Power Calibration area error in iDVD
Try:
- Clening lens with a Cleaning CD/DVD
- Change brand of DVD disks to eg: Verbatim DVD-R (I use this with good result)
1. Make a disk image in iDVD then use this and
2. burn with Apple Disk util tool or if You have Roxio Toast™ AND
3. at an as slow speed as possibly eg: x1 or x2 or x4
or as Sue writes: Improve performances
iMovie: Tips to improve performance
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93699
Yours Bengt W

Power calibration area error??

hello,
I was having this "The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)" error message continually show up when attempting to burn a dvd project through dvd sp 4. I made the menu in motion 2 and two videos edited through FCP 5.
Does anyone have any advice to help me get past this. Project is due tomorrow morning.
~Ray

Hi:
You can try a different burning workflow. You can build a disc image of your project from DVDSP and burn it using Disk Utility and/or Toast:: Creating Disc Image in DVDSP. DVDSP uses to be more sensitive to media than the other options.
That said, you must know that as general rule, video DVD-R and more compatible with standalone DVD players than DVD+R. That means that you can find some "older" players than can refuse to play DVD+R discs.
Besides that probably DVDSP don't like your DVD+R media. What media brand are you using? Visit this link to learn about quality media: Media Brand vs. Manufatrurer Brand.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Disc recording log; Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 - 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error, Burn failed

Hello All Apple Heads (Brit. short for headmaster or headmistress.)!
My MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846
(Firmware Revision: FQ3T, ATAPI, Burn Support: Yes [Apple Shipping Drive], Cache: 2048 KB, Reads DVD: Yes, CD-Write: -R, -RW, DVD Write:-R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW, Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO), optical super drive is unable to burn on any CD or DVD.
The Disc Recording log list below writes: "Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error, Burn failed".
DiscRecording.log:
Description:          Disc recording log
Size:          2 KB
Last Modified:          11-09-15 4:50 PM
Location: /Users/-/Library/Logs/DiscRecording.log
Recent Contents:          Finder: Burn started, Thu Sep 15 16:40:47 2011
Finder: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-846 FQ3T via ATAPI.
Finder: Requested burn speed was max, actual burn speed is 24x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
Finder: Write (10), block: 4294967146, count: 32 -> 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
Finder: Burn failed, Thu Sep 15 16:41:57 2011
Finder: Burn sense: 3/73/03 Medium Error, Power calibration area error
Finder: Burn error: 0x8002006D The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc, or try burning at a slower speed.
Finder: Burn started, Thu Sep 15 16:43:37 2011
Finder: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-846 FQ3T via ATAPI.
Finder: Requested burn speed was 8x, actual burn speed is 8x.
Finder: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
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Finder: Verify error: 0x80020063 Verifying the burned data failed.
Can this issue be solved by means of firmware/updates, terminal command lines, or through other open source OS?
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I have also tried TDK, Maxell, Verbatim and Sony media
Me too. Out of that list the only brand that has NEVER produced a coaster (on the same burner as yours) is Verbatim DVD-R and Fuji DVD-R. All the others produced a 25-50% failure rate.
Have you tried burning at a slower speed?
Using 16x DVD media is fine - in fact it is difficult to buy any other - but there is a consensus in the Apple Support Forums that a slower burn is a better burn i.e. 2x or 4x (slow burns are better burns!). I always use Toast for burning.
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Verification is a good indicator the disc is burned okay. However, other DVD players can still have problems with the disc. Media problems with various drives is not uncommon. Slower burning may reduce the chance of those problems, and is one of the reasons why RW (read/write) media is always rated slower than DVD-R.
There are some interesting facts here:
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa4.htm and here:
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa4.htm
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i doubt it but is there anyway i can fix that?

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Multiplexing Error
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Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
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• Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
• Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
PART Two.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
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from Boise Jim
Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly e.g. x1
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PART Three.
Multiplex Error
Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
e.g. external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev.
(Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
First, I do not think that mixing wide-screen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
From. Boise, Idaho
I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
Hopefully this can help other people.
by dheb0422
Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
One user more writes
To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
This time multiplex errors gone
So had something to do with chapters
So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
After numerous tries, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 sec's beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
Rich839
In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
Summary - What to try
1. Chapters
• Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
• No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
• No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
3. Safe re-boot
4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
SDMacuser adds to this
• On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
7. Trash iDVD pref. file
8. Make a new iDVD project
9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Yours Bengt W

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I get a power calibration error when burning from IDVD.
Any suggestions as to how to fix it?

Basically a power calibration is the drive writes to the blank and then tries to read it back and adjusts the laser power accordingly to get a proper burn. So there are a number of reasons you might get this problem.
One is the media itself. A bad disc or poor quality media might give you this error.
Next, you may have a dirty laser and running on of those cleaning CDs (they have little brushes on them to dust off the laser) might do the trick.
Third, could be a laser on the drive is giving up the ghost. Hopefully it is not the last one.
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