iDVD encoding

[RRSounds at aol.com]

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:28:21, Steven Rogers <srogers1 at austin.rr.com>

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> On 1/19/04 1:18 AM, "RRSounds at aol.com" <RRSounds at aol.com> wrote:>
>>
>> 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.

What gives you that impression?  Those files are in the DVD project
file.
>>

Steve,
You know, what you say would make a lot of sense. But it doesn't reflect my experience.

When I try to burn a DVD with iDVD, with the project definitely NOT on my boot disc, and dozens of free GB on the iDVD project drive, if my boot disc doesn't have enough free space I will definitely get a "not enough space on disc" error.

I originally thought it was an error with a bad DVD blank, since it doesn't tell you *which* disc doesn't have enough space. So much for accuracy of error messages.
:-P

When I free up enough space on the boot drive, the disc burns fine. Maybe iDVD uses the boot drive for some kind of scratch disc. I don't know, all I can tell you is what I see.

Like I said, this is my experience. It's happened to me on more than one occasion (since I'm stupid enough to keep loading extraneous stuff on my boot drive).

If you haven't had this experience, I would have to suspect you probably have more than 4.5 to 4.7 GB free on your boot drive, and just haven't run up against it.


Peace

David Reaves