Writing Lead-out takes forever

Well, this did not use to happen but now whenever I try to burn a DVD in my MBP using Toast Titanium 7 - data or video DVD, about 4G worth of material - the programme takes forever to write the lead out. Also, the burning itself is very slow (I'm not talking compressing here. Just burning). I've tried different brands (the same brands I've been using for ages) - Sony, Maxell, Benq - but it's been slow with all of them.
I don't think this is an issue with Toast since I can burn DVDs as usual using Toast in my good ol' iMac.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Does anyone know what's happening?
TIA
Dan

I have been having the same problems with the lead-out, but it is inconsistent. It took forever for me to finish a burn in DVD Studio Pro, then I used popcorn to rip a couple of copies of it and the first copy burned as usual, the second took for bloody ever to finish out. Not sure what the deal is. I never had this problem with my 2.16 MBP CoreDuo, they are new to my Core2Duo machine. This was not the first DVD burning I have done, but the first time I have encountered the problem. Had burned from iTunes and Popcorn previously without problems over the past week. Not sure what the problem is, but if anyone figures it out, I would love to know!

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'Writing lead-out' can take a long time - especially on 'short' discs - but overnight is too long.
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Have you tried creating a disk image instead of writing directly to writable media?

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"Writing lead-out" seems to take forever - ten minutes anyway. Why? Is there a way to speed this up? I had a two minute DVD that I can burn quickly but then writing lead-out goes on and on.
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and it will go on and on.
What is surprising, is that the longer the DVD, the shorter the write out.
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Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
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Welcome to apple discussions. Sorry to hear you are having troubles burning to Dvd-R.
Suggestion: Let's narrow things down a bit. Try burning a disc image first to the desktop. You can do that from the file menu within iDvd. Next I'd like you to test the disc image with apple's dvd player app. Assuming it plays as expected, then burn to Verbatim, Maxell, or Tiaiyo Yuden at 4x. Please avoid Memorex while trobleshooting. Thereafter / once we have the issue resolved, feel free to burn to whatever media works best for you and your mac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1583?viewlocale=en_US
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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Writing lead-out problem ...?

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I am using iDVD6 to burn a project to RIDATA DVD+R DL discs. The burn in iDVD6 90% of the time fails at the end (no error logs). However, after playing the DVD on a number of players (computer and dedicated) the DVD seems to be fine (all aspects - movie, slides, finish etc).
A hint at the problem may be that when I use Toast to burn data to the same discs it fails at writing the "Lead-Out" with Mac OS Error -5001. Searching the Internet hasn't really told me much about either of those (Lead-Out) or Mac OS Error -5001.
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You don't provide any information on what Mac you
have, what OS, how much RAM (example: see my profile
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Thanks that info - its unfortunate we have to burn at slower speeds than the drive is rated - kind of beats the purpose ...
I've previously had pretty good results with Imation DVD+R DL but wanted something that was inkjet printable (DL).
I could only find RiData locally. I now know that they are though of as second tier media, so perhaps the media is the problem.
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Ashley.

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I'm unable to halt the spinning by any means other than rebooting the computer. Usually, the result is fine. Sometimes the DVD doesn't conclude viewing properly.
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Yup, the Memorex disks have been a bit problematic. I was able to burn to an image with iDVD.
I happened to have some TEON DVD-R 8x media a friend gave for another project, and that worked fine. The Memorex 16x media burned at 8x had the same issue.
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