idvd5 crashes or freezes everytime......

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baddogy

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HI:

What is wrong with Idvd5. I import from my dvcam into imovie edit add music transfer to idvd set up menues start the burn process and it crashes or freezes 3/4 of the way through the first process. It has done this on all 5 movies that ive attempted to make. Ive tried everthing. I will run the longest after i use disk doctor and then disk warrior, But still crashes.

I have a g4 1gig duel process running tigar.


HELP

Tom
 
First...Norton Utilities have caused a lot of problems for Tiger. I'd suggest booting from your install CD and performing Disk Repair from Disk Utility.

Also, iDVD caches files to your hard drive while it is encoding and writing. How much available hard drive space do you have? It is very easy to fill up a drive when you're making movies (i made a 12 minute-long iMovie that ended up at 2 gb once).
 
Hi:

Thanks for the quick responce. I have 3 hard drives the project is on a 300 gig drive with 190 available. I dont use norton? only disk warrior. I'll try booting from the install disk. My guess is that it wont do anything only because this problem has been going on since the last drive. One of the drives failed and was replaced and changed nothing. I was told that the DVD drive was bad so i replaced it and still idvd crashed.
 
I forgot to metion before but DiskWarrior only works properly for Tiger if you have the latest version (v3.0.3). If you're running 3.0.2 or earlier, it can cause problems as well.

The reason I suggested booting from the install cd and running Repair Disk from Disk Utility is to make sure you have no Directory or Catalog problems caused by Disk Doctor (or an older version of Diskwarrior). It may also fix what's wrong that's keeping iDVD from working (knock on wood).

So from what I'm understanding, it never actually gets to the actual "burning" part of burning? Just crashes during processing? Have you tried creating a new user account (in System Preferences) and attempting to burn the DVD from there? If that doesn't do it, I'd suggest you reinstall iDVD.
 
Hi again:

I have the new version of warrior, i just re-installed idvd last week and i have also tried to create a new user and of course the same crashing problem occures. Is it possilble that i have a ram problem? I read somewere that added ram can be non compatable with the computer.

when i get home i'll try the boot from the cd and see what happens with that. God i hope it works

Thanks again.

Tom
 
i SUPPOSE it could be a RAM issue. OS X is extraordinarily sensitive when it comes to RAM. I had an iMac G5 with an out of control cooling fan, solved completely by romiving 3rd party ram.

Try removing any ram you installed since you bought the machine and try running iDVD again.

If it isn't working from another account, and reinstalling it didn't help, perhaps your dvd-r drivers aren't proper. You said you replaced your dvd burner. Did you replace it with an Apple Superdrive, or other model? If other, did you run Patchburn?

Last thing i could think is an archive and reinstall of your OS. Harsh solution, but i couldn't think of what could cause the problem if it isn't the dvd burner, RAM, user settings, bad software, or preferences.

Good luck, man. My heart goes out to you.
 
Randy:

I pulled out the kensington 512 ram i added and just left the 256 that came with the machine and all works fine. Thats not exactly true. i got it to burn a dvd. It had encording errors. so i'm redoing the project and well see what happens.

Thanks for all the help

Tom
 
Good, if removing the ram helped at least a little, you should be able to get Kensington to replace it for free. I've had good experience with their customer service in the past. Just act a lot more important than you actually are.
 
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