Problem of engraving with iDVD

After I have integrated a film with I.video and directed the layout of the DVD, I start burning. The 1st steps take place correctly but when l step of engraving starts, an error message clearly linked to a problem of codec (?) appears and the DVD is automatically ejected. The process continues but in a vacuum. What is the nature of the problem? Thank you

Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
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.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

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Problem with iDVD - cannot burn DVD.
Self has a MacBook Pro, which al new software.
My problem is, when my burn a slideshow, prop process ever before burning.
Box show: Multiflexing and burning: write Lead-in, then the process stops and ejects the disc.
I have burn a Movie test – no problems.
Self use Verbatim DVD-R
Who can help - what should I do?

How did you create the slideshow and get it in iDVD?
As a general comment try following this workflow to separate the encoding and burning processes:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

Sharing imovie with idvd. Having big problems!!!!

I have tried to "share" my imovie project (13.76GB in size, approx 48 minutes duration) with idvd and nothing seems to be happening.
I understand that it will take a long time but it has been exporting for the last 24 hours. I have opened the "project info" window to keep track of the encoding process. After a 24 hour period the encoding bar hasn't filled with any blue to indicate the stage it is at.
I have also made sure the is plenty of space. I read that I need 15-20GB free space. I have 18GB of free space)
Please help me. I thought this part would be hassel free.
ibook superdrive & imac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi again wwww...,
The reason I recommend using the import video command from the file menu is so there is no chance of mistakenly dropping your 48 minute video into the drop box or background of your DVD menu. It is very easily done.
So, on with the show..... I can't say what is going on exactly, but please follow these steps and you should be up and running again in no time.
Firstly, restart your computer. Now install and run Onyx (it's a free disc maintenance app, link attached). Open Onyx and run 'Automation'. It will take about 10-15 minutes to do it's thing. While Onyx is running, open a finder window and type idvd.plist into the search box and delete this file. It is the preference file for iDVD. Be sure to delete this file ONLY. And repeat the process for imovieHD.plist and empty the trash. When Onyx has finished you will be promted to restart your computer.
After restart, open your iMovie project and go to the file menu>export or share>Quicktime and change the setting to Full Quality DV. Change the destination to the desktop for ease of finding. It will probably take an hour or so to export as a full quality dv movie and will be around the same size (GB) as your project. If you have 30Gb of free space this won't be a problem.
Now you have a self-contained, uneditable Quicktime version of your project. Now, open iDVD select your theme and then select 'import video' from the file menu and import the Quicktime movie. It should only take a few seconds to import. Then got to the file menu again and save the project (or apple command key + 'S'). And go back to the file menu and select 'save as disc image' and let it run. Don't use the computer while it's encoding the iDVD project and make sure you quit any other apps running and the screen saver too.
Just a final note. After you have exported your project to Quicktime you no longer need the iMovie file. You can delete it, however, you should also export your project back to your camera as another back up copy of your project. I have had some glitches with iMovie projects not seating into iDVD, which were solved by exporting to Quicktime. I never went into why, only how!
These steps should get you going again. It does seem like a lot of mucking around, but after you have it going again it will seem worth it.
Good luck and please post back with your results.
SR.
Onyx - http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
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Remember the Problem "All" of Us Had Earlier with iDVD?? SOLVED! (for now)

This is a follow-up to a forum which I posted to and was going to reply today but found it archived.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1206408#1206408
Tonight, I had a new project to burn to DVD via, iDVD 5, and knew nothing would work since all attempts to do so would fail.
Due to the infamous "audio encoding" problem some of us had. And no one has been able to find a solution, nor has Apple. My assumption from the get go was that the original project I had created in iDVD 2 or 3 (can't exactly remember) was now somehow incompatible with iDVD 5.
Because I was able to burn DVDs fine until I upgraded my software to iLife '05. And that's when my troubles started.
I could not even burn projects from scratch, created new in iDVD 5. So that showed that my assumption was incorrect! Even a 2 minute length test project did not work. (My original project was an hour in length).
I had a second project that I was doing for a colleague/friend, and I tried later again, this now being early 2006. (The problem we faced, or at least my problem if you see my posting in the original thread, now archived, was back in November 2005).
I figured maybe that problem had cleared up by now, with all the OS updates to Mac OS X since then.
No such luck. After the unsuccessful audio encoding process, it spit out the unburned DVD, and gave me an error message. (This was a 15 minute video by the way, this project I did for my colleague/friend).
But??? Tonight? Well, actually, last night, with another new project on my hands, I was hoping for the best. I was very skeptical, but I knew that I would have to let the project run overnight to see what would happen.
The next day? SUCCESS. I couldn't believe it. I thought maybe it was too good to be true, but no, the DVD burned, no error messages given, and it played back on the TV.
What was different? The past projects I'd attempted ever since I had the problem were set to "best quality" since they were all an hour or under an hour. And that's the preferred setting since it gives you the best of everything.
I had no choice but to use "best performance" since my current project is 1 hour and 6 minutes in length.
And there in lies, I think, one solution. It fixed mine, so what else can I say? Though I will have to test it out when I get the chance, to see if the same hold true for any project under one hour, but using the "best performance" setting.
Again to note, it is recommended by Apple (along with it being a personal preference) to use the "best quality" setting with any videos 1 hour in length or less.
I'm currently burning the 5th copy of the DVD with no problems. Of course, since I did not bother to stay in front of the computer-- as entertaining as that would have been --while the process worked overnight, I wasn't able to observe what happened.
I did just recently, and can see, that... oddly enough? It still hangs during the audio encoding process, but the caveat here is that it resolves itself after a few minutes (few is an overstatement, since it takes longer, but in the scheme of things-- considering some of us would wait 16 hours crossing our fingers to hope that the audio encoding process would clear itself up and didn't --it is a "few" minutes).
The progress bar is unresponsive and the nuclear burn button doesn't spin during the audio encoding process, but rest assured, it starts moving again.
So, those of you original posters in that forum who STILL haven't been able to figure out a solution, go into your preferences and set your quality to "best performance" not "best quality" and see if it works out for you.
And remember, don't panic if the progress bar stops moving and the nuclear burn button doesn't spin. (Wouldn't you know it, I'm staring at the exact thing right now!! I'm not kidding... this is the 5th DVD I've burned remember? So trust me, it works). Even if you get a spinning beach ball cursor when you mouse over to iDVD's window.
Good luck!!
=)
P.S. I will point out that maybe, just maybe, some software update in recent months since November 2005 may have fixed it? Though I highly doubt it because there have been no software updates to the iLife '05 suite that I can recall. I wonder if users of iLife '06 are having this problem with audio encoding?
P.S.S. Also, shame on us for thinking that Apple has left us out of the loop. Since the problem isn't that widespread, I'm sure that's why they haven't made it an issue. Though I'm sure I can understand everyone's frustration, because I've been going through it since November. Until today, that is!
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PowerMac G4 1.42 GHz DP Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2 GB RAM / ATI Radeon 9700 / USB 2.0 PCI / Serial ATA 150 + IDE 133 PCI

Heh heh, I'm replying to my own topic.
I forgot to mention that looking through the support forums at the time (November 2005 and weeks later), it was suggested as a run-around, to instead burn your project without actually using iDVD.
First suggestion was to "Archive Project"-- THAT did not work for me.
Second suggestion was to create a "Disc Image" directly from iDVD-- nope.
So that adds only to the fact that there was really something wrong for some of us, whatever the problem was. Be it the "audio encoding" problem, or whatever.
Again, when I get the chance, I will try those too. Seeing if I can archive my project and/or create a disc image with the settings at "Best Performance"-- the solution I came upon --instead of set at "Best Quality."
I'll report back here when I can.
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I have a problem with IDVD when I have completed a movie and set it up with menus etc I cannot operate the burn button so I cannot make a DVD.

I have a problem with IDVD when I have completed a movie and set it up with menus etc I cannot operate the burn button so I cannot make a DVD.

Hi
Can You
Go up to File Menu in iDVD - and here down to
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When using iDVD to burn content onto DVDs, I suffer from "comb effect" interlacing related problems both in the iDVD Preview and with the final product played on a computer. I have yet to play the disc in a "real" DVD player.
I am editing HDV (60i) footage with FCE 4, exporting (both interlaced and de-interlaced - same problem) to 1920x1080 HD at a Quicktime movie, and then importing the clips to iDVD.
The clips are short (under 10 minutes) and play back perfectly on Quicktime.
Once imported to iDVD, the iDVD Preview displays (especially with motion scenes) four areas of horizontal jagged edge areas, which are spectacularly distracting.
Here is an example:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u4/praxisuniversal/InterlacingProblem.jpg
I have tried various settings using iDVD, but have not been met with success. In other, similar discussions, people have had luck with other software programs, but I am reluctant to spend great gobs of money if the Apple Discussion Brain Trust can find a way to circumvent.
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When I try to open an old iDVD project file I get the following error message:
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I checked and made sure that iDVD is set to PAL (by opening it on a blank project) and I know for a fact that the old projects were also PAL so there is NO change of TV standard. When I click OK on the dialogue box, iDVD quits.
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No not with iDVD.....but here are a few ideas:
iMovie can add a voice-over. So build a slideshow in iPhoto, import into iMovie and talk away, even add music too.
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Anybody out there who knows what's wrong?
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Besides your personal folders (Desktop, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures), you may want to decide whether you need to back up the library folder. The library folder generally contains preferences for most of your applications, and also caches and applications support files. These can become really big in some cases (Mine is more than 8GB, will not fit on a dual layer DVD). And the Library>Caches folder contains temporary files that will change from time to time, this might be the cause of your previous error since the shortcut is no longer valid.
Once you chose your files and make sure they will fit on your blank CD/DVD, you can just do what you did before, drag the folders to a Burn folder, make sure you are not running any other apps, so they won't be modifying the files.
There are programs you can use to backup to CD/DVD, Disc burner like Toast will span across several discs if the data does not fit on one. For a more automated solution, Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html) can backup to disc images which you can then burn to discs. I personally don't know a lot backup programs that provide good support for CD/DVDs, so I'll leave this to other folks.
If you are going to backup regularly, I would recommend spending some money on an external drive. You can find quite a few free software for automated backup and saves money and time on burning CD/DVDs. Plus you have the advantage of being able to boot from the external drive should anything bad happened to your internal one.

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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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