Robert, I had the same problem. My problems do not seem to be the result of which DVD-Rs I use. My solution: Chapters.... and several of them. (The actual number of clips does not seem to matter.) When I burned a 30 minute DVD that was busted into 3 or 4 chapters, the final result was a disaster.... the sound on my movie had "shifted" and did not match. I tried the same movie later and I busted it up into 14 chapters... that worked! I guess it was like "baby steps" for the computer... smaller chapters made it easier to chew. I would start the burning before bed. Just as you, the burning would seem to stall, but with multiple chapters, a decent DVD was waiting in the morning. It still takes a long time. I have one of Apple's first DVD-R drives... hopefully, your drive can handle a heavier load.
-Troy > >I am trying to burn my first DVD using iDVD and iMovie. It's an 18 minute >movie with about 170 clips, and I got it all into iDVD program OK. Here's >the problem, and I hope someone can help me (iDVD help is a joke): It gets >to step 4, matrixing (?) and burning and gets stuck there. It ran for 8 >hours last night stuck on step 4. I'm using the latest iLife versions, OS >10.3, and a G5. > >Naturally, it's a project that I have spent about 30 hours on and I have to >have it done now! > >Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. If you are reading this after 5 pm >today, please reply offline, as I get the digest version and I can't waste >another day (I promise to share everything with the list). Thanks. > >Robert _________________________________________________________________ Take off on a romantic weekend or a family adventure to these great U.S. locations. http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx | 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>.
