Another iDVD question....

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imac davidimac david
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi all,



I have a 40 minute home movie created and edited in iMovie. At the end I chose the option 'export to iDVD' and created a file c7GB in size.



In iDVD I imported it, and went to burn. It kicked off by saying it needed 151 minutes, and so I went to bed. In the morning, 8 hours later it was still trying to finish. No sound from the disc drive could be heard.



I'm running a flat panel iMac, 800Mz.



Do I need to re-install iDVD? ANy other tweaks? No other software was running at the time.



Thanks for any help,



David

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    xaqtlyxaqtly Posts: 450member
    I dunno. All I can say for sure is that I've burned about 25 DVDs, all over a hour in length, on my iMac/800, with no problems. I suppose it could be a problem with your movie, but I don't know what that might be. Maybe you could try just doing it again after restarting the iMac to be on the safe side.
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    imac davidimac david Posts: 286member
    Hi,



    when you burned your movies, how long did the Mac take to prepare it for burning, and how long the actual burn?



    Thanks,



    David
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    xaqtlyxaqtly Posts: 450member
    I usually left it on overnight so I don't know for sure. But I do know that I simply imported a couple movies and then told it to burn, so it didn't have time to pre-render any of it. I burned some 60 and some 90 minute DVDs, the 90 minute ones took a few hours, a lot of that time was rendering time. The 60 minute ones took a couple hours, generally.
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    gordygordy Posts: 1,004member
    All sleep functions are disabled, right? Even Monitor sleep must be disabled.
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    imac davidimac david Posts: 286member
    Thanks,



    I think it was the monitor sleep that was causing problems (why oh why should that be the case?).



    But it triggered another question - I was thinking of deleting iDVD and reinstalling it from the disks I received with the iMac. But when I started to have a look at it, it seems as though you don't have the option to select only bits of software - it's all or nothing. And worryingly it talks about deleting everything on the hard disk, not just the application software.



    Is that correct? Is there a way of re-installinmg only a little of what I want?



    Cheers!



    David
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