iDVD encoding

sb videovideo at mac.com
Mon Jan 19 08:44:53 PST 2004


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



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