"waiting for device to become ready" then ejects

Hello,
I have two music videos set up as chapters and am trying to burn a DVD with this.
Everything plays fine when "reviewing" then when I hit "burn dvd" it asks for a recordable disc. I put in a DVD-R disc, which has plenty of room on it, and it accepts it. Then is says "waiting for device to become ready" spins it around, stops it, spins it around, stops it, and ejects the disc and says "no disc in drive. please insert a recordable disc".
Yes, I have a DVD superdrive that can burn DVDs. I do not understand what is going on!!!

says "no disc in drive. please insert a recordable disc"
Either your media is bad or your burner is bad.
Are you certain the media has never been used? What brand and rated burn speed is the media? To test the media and the burner independent of iDVD, try burning a data DVD from the finder.
F Shippey

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