Trouble with timing/quality when transferring from iMovie to iDVD

When I transfer an iMovie to iDVD, either the timing to the music is off or the timing works but a few slides have moments of a blank white screen before they appear. The movie plays fine on iMovie. I've tried re-importing the photos/slides, but that hasn't helped. I also tried changing the order of the slides, and the glitch appeared at the same time (not with the same photos). It may be a space issue, but I'm not sure how to get back so much space on my hard disk. I'm wondering if I should try burning to a dvd to see if the white space or timing issues remain. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi
How much free space is there on Your Start-Up (Mac OS - Main) hard disk ?
I never go under 25Gb free space.
To free up space - You either
• Delete things/documents You KNOW is of no more importance to You (or for Your Mac) - by moving to trash basket down right end of Dock - Then go up to Menu row Apple --> Finder and down this to "Empty Trash"
or
• Copy over to another external hard disk. BUT this
Should be a FireWire one - if You want to store video on it (USB/USB2 performs badly to me)
MUST BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - Especially for Video material else files get's broken
Yours Bengt W

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