Spinning ball during audio enoding

Question

I have just finished an iMovie, the length is about 62 minutes, I have set the preferences in IDVd to 'best quality', when I try to burn a DVD every step proceeds ok untill the audio encoding and and then I just get the spinning beach ball. is something wrong, I have about a half dozen songs from my iTunes library for sound tracts (mp3). I have forced the app to quit when I see the spinning ball, then started the process over, should I just try and wait it out, if so how long? Thanks in advance to anyone who knows more about this subject that I. Thanks, Lynn
p.s. I have gotten the same results with my dual IMac 20 in screen and with my Mac book (both running 10.4.8)

Answer 1

Welcome Lynn
...should I just try and wait it out, if so how long?
Yes. Wait it out. And if it still fails to work after 48 hours then try burning your itunes music to a CD first... and then import the audio in aiff format.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
Note: there is an issue sometimes with iTunes Music Store purchased song/s not working correctly, but this is easily fixed by burning the purchased tune to an audio CD then reimporting ...iDVD has to convert any audio to the aiff format when it's encoding. This takes a long time if the audio isn't already in aiff format.