Is it possible at all to burn dvd in iDvd '08 ??

My poor macbook was working like 2 days trying to burn dvd from iDvd '08 a project made in iMovie '08 that I've modified in iMovie HD. Project for 48 minutes, dvd dual layer 8.5 Gb, I have 9 GB free space, 120 Gb at all and 1.5 Gb of memory. It's burning about 3 hours than say: "Multiplexing and burning. Done.Time remaining: 0 minutes." And freeze !! I left for a few hours this process . And nothing. Like this 4 times already.
I didn't use any application during burning, neither keyboard.
Is there solution? Thanks.

As Len stated, using DL is pointless in your own situation. Stay with SL as well as using either Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R while troubleshooting on this forum for best results. Hope this helps and good luck.

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I'm also told an external drive would work but does "mac compatible" mean only for air and mini as their own superdrive is or all macs?
Any help appreciated before I convince myself mac is no better than windows pc!

Thanks but this didn't really help.
I can buy the drives at a dozen places but none of them seem to know what connection is correct (SATA etc) and that includes the apple store. It was the store who told me buy the superdrive and all my problems would be over. Wrong! It isn't recognised by imac as it's confifured for air and mini mac. Only way to make it work is as i said in earlier post. (Would you be happy buying a car you were told would start and then discover you have to open the bottome and fiddle to make it go?)
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When I try to burn a DVD in iDVD, at the end of the burning process, I get a message that reads "Multiplexer Error" "There was an error during formatting".
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Thanks!

When iDVD isn't functioning correctly, a basic maintenance procedure to try is:
1) Closing iDVD and trashing the file com.apple.iDVD.plist found in User/Library/Preferences.
2) Doing a permissions repair using the Disk Utilities app on your Mac.
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I've tried transfering or publishing my video from imove to idvd in order to burn onto disc. However, the disc burn "circle" won't allow me. I looked at older posts and unfortunately I'm not finding them helpful. Can someone assist me please?
Thank you!

Hi
You need to tell much more to set us on track.
Movie from where and in what Video Codec
Imported into iDVD - How ?
Most common situation:
• If You made Your movie in iMovie'11
• Select it
• Share to Media Browser - AND AS LARGE or MEDIUM (HD and other resolutions will decrease the final DVD quality)
• in iDVD (You are sure You got it - as it's not delivered on NEW Macs any more)
• Import movie from Media Button (doen to the Right) and here from Movies
DO Not forget to set down BURN SPEED to x2 or x4 - to get best possibly DVD (in iDVD pref/Advance bottom - BEST is NOT BEST !)
• I use Verbatim
• I use DVD-R (as they play on older DVD-players too)
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What does error message when trying to burn DVD from iDVD mean "not enough disk space to burn the remaining assets"

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"not enough disk space to encode the remaining assets". I am using a brand new blank DVD.
I have read the help info on computer but hasnt proved helpful.
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Pre edit:
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
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-->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 did change in Tiger.
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Could be the brand of media you are using. Most users here find the most reliable to be Verbatim DVD-R.
Also, try burning at a lower 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 and that the most reliable brands are Verbatim, Maxell and Fuji, all DVD-R, burned at 2x or 4x (slow burns are better burns!). I always use Toast for burning.
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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 need your expertise! So, I was given a DVD of footage of a speaker at my church. I'm not exactly sure what program was used to burn the DVD, but I have reason to believe a PC was involved. I had hoped that they had made it a Quicktime file, but no such luck- an error message comes up saying it's not a movie file. I need to get the footage into iDVD so I can make more copies, but have no idea what to do since it's not a Quicktime file.
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It works fine in my standard DVD player, but I also tried it on my Playstation 3 and it did not play.
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Once the disk has been burned however, any motion appears jerky/blurred (moving arms, walking across camera, etc). I have the DVD set to burn at 2x speed using Sony DVD-R media.
Does anyone know what is causing this and how I can fix it?

I just now tried the same approach (via capture now) but I'm guessing FCP HD Version 4.5 doesn't have that very same feature built into it ....
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Hi
My thoughts on this - this occures to me when
• Using Cheap brands of DVD e.g. Memorex and NoName are bad choice for Video-DVDs (might work as Data-DVDs)
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• DVD type used - I use now DVD-R as they also play on older DVD-players - NEVER +/-RW as they are known problem makers
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Yours Bengt W

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Remove the following to the trash and restart the computer and try again:
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Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iDVD (There may be more than one. Remove them all.)
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See Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic: Multiplexing Error
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To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
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Can't Burn DVD on iDVD

Hi,
I have a MacBook and iLife ,08 and for some reason when i click "burn project to dvd" it says i can't burn a dvd because i dont have a superdrive? I am not sure if that makes sence or what so if anyone knows how to fix this problem that would be most appreciated..
thanks nick

Yup. You have a combo drive.
You can still use iDvd via an external FW burner. LaCie is brand that works well on most macs. OR .... Build your own from a stock pioneer internal S-Drive and standard FW enclosure in 4 easy to follow steps (takes about 10 mins and costs well under $100 or about half the price of a LaCie ext. burner):
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