I have a question for all of you Mac enthusiasts out there. I am having some problems with iDVD, and had the same problem with iDVD 3 as well. I have a PowerMac G5, Dual 2 GHZ processor, 1 GB of Ram, dual 250 GB hard drives and I am using Final Cut Express to edit video. After the completion of my videos I export them into self contained quicktime files and drag them into my iDVD creation. When I click burn it begins the process, but never finishes it. Usually it will get to stage 2 or stage 3 and never get any farther. Right now I am trying to burn a DVD and I am stuck on stage 2 indefinitely. Sometimes if I put another DVD in and try again it will work, but it almost never works the first time. This has happened several times and I have yet to find a solution to the problem. Any ideas?
**UPDATE** (10 minutes later)
I went to apple.com and found a forum about iDVD. This is what I found:
iDVD 4 may not successfully burn a disc on dual processor Power Mac G5 computers if Best Performance is selected in iDVD preferences.
Please update to iDVD 4.0.1. This update is also available through Software Update Preferences.
After you have updated to iDVD 4.0.1, it may be necessary to delete encoded assets from your iDVD 4 project.
I am happy to say that at the very moment I finished this post my DVD was succesfully created and popped out of the DVD drive.
idvd 4.0.1 stuck on stage 2 - what can I do?
Well, I have had a lot of problems with iDVD getting stuck. I continued to upgrade and tried to set my computer to burn slower, or not on best performance. It seems to work now.
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