Most people get through some portion of encoding and burning before iDVD crashes - is this the same for you? I have been researching this issue online (as I too have the problem). Here are the online suggestions.
1. Delete your iDVD plist (preference) file com.apple.iDVD.plist (the actual folder location has changed over time - but look for the file by name)
2. Make sure you have lots of free space (20GB recommended) on the startup drive.
3. Try using "Save as Disk Image", this burns to hard drive rather than the DVD disk. If that works, then burn the image with Disk Utility onto the DVD. This makes duplicate burning even faster and does not waste a DVD
To Burn a disk image to a DVD using Disk Utility (OS 10.3.x):
3a. Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities.
3b. Drag the disk image you created from iDVD to use to the Disk Utility window if the disk image doesn't appear in the list.
3c. Select the disk image (in Disk Utility) and click Burn.
3d. Insert a CD or DVD disc into the optical drive of your computer and follow the prompts.
4. Several people recommended changing type of DVD disk. Different brands and even different speeds (use 4x disks if the burner is a 4x burner)
I deleted the preferences file and used the burn to disk option to solve my problem. The burn to disk this is an official feature on iDVD 5. There is an Easter Egg method to enable this function in older versions of iDVD at
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/mac_support/ (Jeff's Mac Support Website). This site contained most of the information I summarized above.
borut ekar said:
Hello
I have problem with iDVD. When I click on the BURN button iDVD always send me an error report which simply says The aplication iDVD has unexpectedly quit. I tried so many times but the result is always the same. So I can not burn my movie to DVD with iDvd application. If maybe someone had the same problem or knows something about how to fix it please let me know.
Have a nice day
Borut
