IMovie to iDVD PLEASE HELP!

My first iMovie Project. It is a slideshow with about 800 photos and music. I am trying to get it onto a DVD (Through IDVD). I completed the project in iMovie, I hit share and it says it is formatting 40 minutes. The first time I did it it said there was too much content and that I had to change the encoding. I found encoding and changed it to high. I hit share again and again it was processing the format 40 minutes. At the end of the 40 minutes the processing the iDVD box is there but you cant click on it you get a doink sound and you can not click out of it either. I'm totally lost. I have to get this thing on DVD today. Please Help…..Thanks in advance.
Charlie

Hi
Three important steps
• Do not use "Share to iDVD" within iMovie (any version) - BUT use - Share to Media Browser and as Large (not HD or other) - and in iDVD import from it's Media Browser.
• In iDVD - Rather use Pro Quality encoding - as High is lowest quality here - takes time but well worth it.
iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (vers 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1)
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
Professional Quality (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST
Best Performances (movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
About double on DL DVDs.
• Before burning - Do a Save as a DiskImage and test this to see that all's OK
(Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk - to let iDVD and Mac OS run as intended)
(I set down burn speed to x4 - better DVD result - less burn errors)
Yours Bengt W

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