iDVD Help - It keeps freezing

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I'm trying to burn a slideshow in iDVD, but the app contines to freeze on me during Stage 2 of the burn process. I've tried 3 times and even reinstalled iDVD, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.



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  • Reply 1 of 3
    Quote:

    Originally posted by window

    I'm trying to burn a slideshow in iDVD, but the app contines to freeze on me during Stage 2 of the burn process. I've tried 3 times and even reinstalled iDVD, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.



    Well, could you supply more information about your system?

    PB, iBook, G3, G4...?

    How many Pictures (and size) does your slideshow contain?



    From your given post i wouldn't necessarily think

    that iDVD did freeze or even crash.



    Well granted iDVD is not very informative about

    what it actually does. At least iDVD could estimate

    a time (AND DISPLAY THAT ESTIMATED TIME), which

    process probably takes what time. Users very often

    tend to think the app crashed. Though it is just

    computing in the background.

    Give me some information about your project

    and your computer and i try to estimate the time

    of rendering.



    Coding and rendering a slideshow CAN take

    a while. When i burned my first iMovie (8min.) with 2 or 3

    slideshows added, i was quite surprised how much time this

    entire process consumed (pb G4 1ghz). About 1 hour?

    i don't remember exactly.

    Coding and rendering consumes a lot of time, burning itself

    goes realy fast afterward.



    Hope that helps a bit.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it very much.



    As for my system, I have a 1.25 17" iMac with 768MB of RAM.



    My slide show has 99 pictures with a page wipe transition and no music. Just manual page turning. As for the main menu, its a theme with a custom picture and audio clip. Motion is includes as well.



    During the Stage 2 - encoding and rendering, the staus bar swirls for at least 5 minutues. Then, the status bar freezes and the mult- color spin wheel starts to spin endlessly. Nothing works. And when I click on iDVD in the dock, it says "Application Not Responding." Rather strange.



    I have tried everthing. I have restarted m y computer numerous time, reinstalled iDVD from the factory disk and even run the Hardware Test. Nothing seems to work.



    If you have any ideas or solutions, please let me know. Thanks again.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    Quote:

    Originally posted by window



    ...

    My slide show has 99 pictures with a page wipe transition and no music. Just manual page turning. As for the main menu, its a theme with a custom picture and audio clip. Motion is includes as well.



    During the Stage 2 - encoding and rendering, the staus bar swirls for at least 5 minutues. Then, the status bar freezes and the mult- color spin wheel starts to spin endlessly. Nothing works. And when I click on iDVD in the dock, it says "Application Not Responding." Rather strange.



    ...




    Well, i don't see that your iDVD is broken or

    something. I rather think the issue has something to do

    with the pictures (size, amount, perhaps corrupted, i don't know).

    To make sure, wether iDVD is crashing, look up the crashreport logs

    in the Console.



    It sounds silly, but encoding and rendering pictures

    seems to be more processor intensive than just

    rendering a movie from iMovie.

    Keep attention about picture size. You don't

    need huge sizes and resolutions (72dpi is enough).

    Especially for TV purposes



    One more question:

    What do you mean by "endlessly"? More than

    say 30 minutes, an hour?

    As i stated in my first post. Encoding and

    rendering can waste some time. Be patient.



    Once i rendered a, i said it already, 8min. movie

    and a 20 pic slideshow, the whole thing took

    aprox 1 hour. the status bar swirled and seemed

    to be frozen for a while. But suddenly the process

    moved on.



    In order to see if iDVD is actually working properly on

    your system, i'd try the following:

    Create a new iDVD project and import,

    say, 10 pictures. Import them via iPhoto.

    Click burn and wait an' see.
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