I have looked at iSkysoft's DVD Creator, downloaded the demo version, but it did not recognize my QuickTime. I certainly don't mind paying for good software as long as it does the job. As far as I am concerned, iDVD is nothing but junk, cute-looking but unprofessionally written bloatware that Apple ships with their Macs. If there is something with the user's project or the hardware that may prevent the software from creating a DVD then it should be up to the software to detect such conditions and report back what exactly the problem is. You can't just dismiss such things as users- or hardware problems. I think it is extremely incompetent - and disrespectful to the customers - to keep releasing such half-baked software for years. People have been searching for clues for years, and Apple seems to have dismissed the problem all together. ![]() If an "unexpected" critical error occurs, good software should be capable of providing the diagnostics that would eliminate guesswork. And it is nothing but a defect in their software! Good professional software should be catching any dangerous inconsistencies in the user project before it wastes half a day of the user's time. In other words, after all these years of people struggling with this very issue - regardless of the iDVD version - Apple still does not have a way to pin-point this very common bug. I called Apple support, they couldn't advise anything other than rebuilding the project from scratch. However, iDVD failed to create disc images or burn any configuration of my real project. It worked once - when I included a single 10-minute movie in the root menu, one slide show, and nothing else. If you are saying that a missing asset may cause such an error, wouldn't you want to check for the presence of all the necessary items before you launch and run the process for 4 hours?! I had tried wiping out the project, creating brand new ones from scratch in various configurations, re-arranging menus, etc. The explanation itself is somewhat ridiculous. As soon as the "Burn" stage starts, iDVD produces a "Multiplexing error." The help documentation says that the most common reason is missing or bad assets, but all the assets are there, and they all play and encode just fine. It takes iDVD about 4 hours to encode all the assets. No errors or warnings when launching "Save as Disc Image" or "Burn". Both project and global iDVD settings specify "Professional Quality", NTSC, 16:9. I need to fit just over 100 min on a single DVD (about 4.1GB total) so the "Best Performance" option is not really an option for me. The movies play fine in Final Cut Express 4 where I edited them, in QuickTime, as well as in the iDVD preview. ![]() I have spent several weeks trying to burn (actually, create a disc image for) a single DVD - just under 2 hours of video and slides - with the "Professional Quality" setting in iDVD 7. ![]() I am using a new MacBook Pro 2.53GHz, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.6 (w/latest update) with over 200GB of free disk space. I have found postings in various Mac forums dated as back as 2003 (!) referring to the cryptic "multiplexing error" that pops up at the very end of a very lengthy process. This must have been a consistent problem with iDVD for many years.
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