This is one reason why people buy Toast. sb On 1/19/04 1:18 AM, "RRSounds at aol.com" <RRSounds at aol.com> wrote:> > I've run into this problem before. This is what I was trying to > explain in my previous post > > I believe the 712.4 MB free space you have is simply not enough. > > iDVD may take as much as 4.5 GB to make a DVD, and you don't > have that much free space on your boot (OSX) drive. > > Your iMovie project is on the external drive, but it's my experience > that iDVD wants to use your OS X boot drive to encode onto, before > it burns the disc. > > Clear out any failed attempts, then make sure you have 4.5GB free > space, before you start reinstalling everything. > > If someone knows a way to get iDVD to encode onto an external, > or any disc other than the OSX boot drive, I'd be grateful if you'd > let us know. > > David Reaves