Media coding get stuck at audio coding

This is an urgent request. I prepared a 45 min wedding movie. After burning three DVDs via iDVD 6 (worked perfectly) I noticed a short blemish on the audio site.
I shortened a small part of the tone, saved and tried again to prepare in iDVD for the next burnings.
Everything was working well: menue process, media coding first step video coding. After finishing video coding, when audio coding appears on the screen, suddenly the "yellow/black symbol" stopped to turn, the beachball started and nothing happened (for 2 hours). I tried it twice, but always the same effect.
The wedding party is waiting for the DVDs. Could somebody help me?

Hi Wolfgang
I think there is old material in iDVD that interferes. Either delet this by using
the menu in iDVD. Under ADVANCED select Erase coded mediafiles (or alike)
then retry OR
start a new iDVD project with the new edited material (my way)
Yours Bengt W

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