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No warning messages in the iDVD Project Info pane prior to Burning, no warnings in the project Map display. IDVD Project Info: 2Gig Size, NTSC, Encoding using Best Performance, Widescreen 16x9, Single Layer media. I had exported the edited movie from FCE as a Quick Time self contained movie (Audio and Video W/ Chapters Sequence size about 29Gig) and dragged the sequence onto the Sunflower theme contained in iDVD 7.0.4. This last effort was my fourth try over the same number of days to burn a 45 minute movie, edited in Final Cut Express v3.5 (NTSC 16x9 Anamorphic, with about 10 Chapter markers.) So……, where is the problem? First of all, is the formatting error in the exported movie from FCE, or formatting during the iDVD authoring? Or is it a Hardware burning problem? Why can't some troubleshooting software be integrated within iDVD?! I wish that when iDVD prematurely quits burning and spits out the DVD, that a more comprehensive error message were displayed as to the cause of the termination of the burning process.Īfter about 4 hours of iDVD encoding menus and movies, as well as completing the status bar through the Multiplexing and Burning, an empty status bar begins and is labeled “Writing Lead-In”.Īfter a few seconds in this “Writing Lead-In” phase, with no incremental progress shown in the status bar, the iDVD pane begins to display the spinning ‘color wheel of death’, and the DVD is ejected from the side of my iMacG5, and the following message appears:

There seems to be a lot of hit or miss outcomes out there, and no certain solutions but to try again and again to achieve a successful DVD burn.

Having chased many threads on this topic, there seems to be others beside myself who have had this same burning problem with iDVD.

Thought I would post my experience along with your post, and hoping you could shed some light on my problem, even though I’m not using iMovie.

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