Won't burn disk

Hi,
I have iDVD 6 and have made a small 11 minute movie in iMovie HD. It has a sound track, which is just the soundtrack from the digital tape. I added a few sound effects. I go to "share" in iMovie, and have it sent to iDVD...everything works great, it starts to burn the disk, then goes all the way through and gets hung up on "processing audio", and just won't do anything else. The disk never gets burned. I have tried restarting. I have tried starting with iDVD and not going through iMovie first. Nothing works. It hangs every time. What can I do...this is really frustrating!! Thanks.

...I let it set overnight and it got the job
done. Pretty goofy software, though, that takes that
long to encode an audio track. I think they need to
fix that.
... or perhaps you need a new, faster computer. Creating DVDs requires a lot of computer 'horsepower'!
Remember the saying: 'good, fast, cheap - you can have any TWO'.

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