iDVD 6 freezes at encoding audio

[MacWinUser]

Hi, I'm trying to make an iMovie HD into a DVD with iDVD 6. I've printed and read all the "getting started" and tutorials on both applications. The problem is when I get to the "encoding audio" part of the process. It just stops making any progress at that point and just shows the colorful beach ball for hours and hours (overnight). I never even get to the "burn" part of the process. It does the same thing when I try to save the project as a disc image.

I've checked the project for errors and there are none. I'm using a 2005 iMac G5 so it's not a hardware problem. The movie is 61 minutes long and 15GB. Perhaps it's because I have a lot of music and sound effects in the project. Could that be the problem? Should I simplify the movie? It's not much fun when you can't use all the bells and whistles and still have a finished product. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[desert_vamp]

Hi, I'm trying to make an iMovie HD into a DVD with iDVD 6. I've printed and read all the "getting started" and tutorials on both applications. The problem is when I get to the "encoding audio" part of the process. It just stops making any progress at that point and just shows the colorful beach ball for hours and hours (overnight). I never even get to the "burn" part of the process. It does the same thing when I try to save the project as a disc image.

I've checked the project for errors and there are none. I'm using a 2005 iMac G5 so it's not a hardware problem. The movie is 61 minutes long and 15GB. Perhaps it's because I have a lot of music and sound effects in the project. Could that be the problem? Should I simplify the movie? It's not much fun when you can't use all the bells and whistles and still have a finished product. Any advice is appreciated.

Ok...i had this very same problem! i took my power mac g5 into the mac store's genius bar...after working through many different theories for over 6 hours...they scratched their heads and said i was SOL. it is an appearent software bundle problem! they cant fix it...i even reformatted my HD and it still does not work. a way around this huge mac problem is to export your project while it is in iMovie to Full Quality to your HD somewhere and then just add the .mov file to iDVD. that is how i get around it. :dive:

 

[pharis40]

so when i click "best quality" in project info and have it export from that and it continues to eject saying its done and not work in a dvd player... you're saying that its a mac problem?

 

[xstep]

so when i click "best quality" in project info and have it export from that and it continues to eject saying its done and not work in a dvd player... you're saying that its a mac problem?

I think he really meant to say software problem.

Oh. Older players couldn't handle self made DVDs because they couldn't properly focus on this disc. Perhaps there are some current players with this issue. I don't know.

By the way, you have a response at your similar post. ;

 

[xstep]

MacWinUser, I think you need to describe how you are getting the video to DVD. Are you using the send to iDVD option from iMovie or are you exporting to a file that you import into iDVD.

What are the video and audio codecs used in the video file? Perhaps the audio codec is an incompatible type.

I can't recall if iDVD 6 could handle more than 60 minutes of material. I think it does.

desert_vamp suggested exporting to a self contained QuickTime file. I'd try AIC for the video codec with PCM audio.