Sleep after burn

How can I get my iMac to sleep after burning a DVD? I like to let it burn overnight since many of my DVD's are quite long. I tried changing the energy preferences for the computer to go to sleep after 1 minute of inactivity. So I thought that after the burn...it would go to sleep. When I checked on it, the display was asleep, but the computer was up and running after the DVD was completed. I then tried just to have iDVD open with the same setting in the energy panel...and it DID go to sleep. Any ideas?
Marie

I just had a thought that might work. Go to the energy control panel, set it all to never so you don't accidentally sleep during the iDVD work. Instead click on the Schedule tab and click on the Shut Down button to enable and then simply set a shutdown time for the computer.
Disadvantage is you have to estimate the time your project will take and put the shutdown time after it, but if you tend to find your projects have predictable times (mine is about 3+ hours per hour DVD) you can set the shutdown after that with some padding to be safe.
If you try it, report back and let us know how it went.
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