[MacDV] Re: iDVD buffer underrun probs

R B Williams brucewll at comcast.net
Sun May 16 18:23:15 PDT 2004


Agreed - pushing the media to its limits is never a first choice.

Steven Romero wrote:

> Not sure if this will help or not. I have experienced some buffer
> underrun error on my 15in Albook using 10.3.3. The only way I got past
> them is by burning the disk at a slower rate than the media is rated
> for. For example, I tried burning some "generic" 16x audio CDs, but I
> could not burn at that rate without the errors. I dropped the burn
> speed down to 12x and have not had an error since. You might be
> experiencing something similar. Try burning the disk at a slower rate
> and see that clears it up.
>
> On May 16, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Darby Lee Darrow wrote:
>
> > I used FCP 4.5 to create a 3 minute video. In the Sequence I nested a
> > sequence from a previous project which was created in FCP 3. I
> > exported it, in as Quicktime, both self contained and as a reference
> > file. I place the file into iDVD and burned  several DVDs. Each time
> > there was a buffer underrun error, which occured in the same place,
> > which is the middle of the nested sequence. I tried restarting, using
> > the ref file, using self contained, no other software was running, but
> > no joy.
> >
> > Any ideas of what went wrong or more importantly, a work around?
>
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