FYI, my iDVD problem from last week has yet to be solved. Now, I?m up to product specialist level at Apple, and he had me email my crash logs for him to take the engineers. Yeeehaw. The issue is burning DVDs on my dual processor G5. I can burn the tutorial demo OK, but not the iMovie project that I authored which is 17.5 minutes long with lots of dv clips and about 200 jpg photos. It hangs up on step 4 (multiplexing and burning) or I get the ol? program has unexpectedly quit message.
If you will indulge me, I will recount the events for you as this might prove useful to some of you. After I asked for help from the list which I of course got, thank you, guys, I followed your suggestions to no avail. I nosed around on the Apple website and found a release acknowledging an iDVD issue for the dual G5s, and I read some comments in the forum about it. So, I contacted Apple Support and they had me try a few things. First they suggested that I export the movie to a full video quicktime file and bring it into iDVD that way. I did, and after a few tries it actually burned a DVD but it was defective (about a third through, the video froze while the soundrack continued). Then they had me set up another account and try it under the test account. Same result. They looked up the serial number of my machine and asked me how much RAM it had, and I said 1 gig. They said it shipped with 512mg, so I should take out the third-party RAM that MacMall put in and try again, that that could very well be the source of the problem. (Sorry, Ward, the G5 was a surprise gift from my wonderful wife; I would have bought it a MacTown.) Although skeptical, I did that (2 256mg Kingston cards) and had the same result. I used Apple-brand DVD blanks throughout, by the way. Stay tuned. Robert | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
