Not burning 4GB disc to capacity

Question

Any ideas why my discs stop when half full. A 4 GB disc will only burn about 1.2 GB material. It doesn't matter if I am using iDVD or Toast.
Tracy

Answer 1

+I should be able to follow your instructions right from the camera?+
No, I was addressing creating an iDVD project and then importing iMovie videos.
If you do not want to do any editing of your video footage, you can utilize iDVD's 'One Step' method to import directly from your camcorder to iDVD and have it automatically create a project and burn it to disk:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6757.html
Note that this does not save your iDVD project anywhere. It uses temporary files that you will not see.
If you are planning to edit your videos before burning to DVDs, or if you wish to save your projects, you will need to do this in two steps. First, importing into an iMovie project and editing the movie. Second, creating an iDVD project and importing/dragging your iMovie into it, doing the minor edits in iDVD--themes, title fonts, highlight colors, audio--and then creating a disk image file of the iDVD project. The disk image file can be used to burn DVD disks and saved for future burns.