I have seen this on my system when the sequence is on one FW drive and the preferences are set to save to a different one (or even a separate partition). Can you find enough space on the same drive for idvd to work? R.B. David Cole wrote: > My first Final Cut Express 2.0.3 movie, about an hour long. Editing on > a PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz, OS 10.3.3. External SmartDisk Firewire drive. > > When I try to output a file for iDVD, the computer hangs up, freezes, > crashes the system... must force quit with the power switch and > restart. I'm trying to either make a reference QT movie of my master > sequence that contains 3 nested sequences or a full rendered QT movie. > > Help! Deadline for school project, of course... > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > -DC > > ---------- > <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/MacDV.html>. > Send a message to <MacDV-DIGEST at themacintoshguy.com> to switch to the digest version. > > XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! > Dr. Bott | Now $139.99 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/xrouter.html> > > Cyberian | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com! > Outpost | http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml > > MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! > Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>