Jim - Once again thanks for the info. I don't know where you get the 'make a pizza by mashing up a pizza' analogy. I have a iMovie project that I want to burn to disc. I can't seem to get it to work. I've read a gazillion pages worth of instructions as it is (Yes I've read through the instructions for the iDVD tutorial as well). Yes I can play a DVD. Yes I can make a data DVD. Yes I can burn a CD with iTunes. I am having no other system/hardware problems. I didn't realize I was one revision behind on iMovie. Software Update never prompted me to update it. I don't think the problem lies with iMovie, as I am past that point. I have a playable iDVD project that will not render/encode properly, and I can't figure out why. I will attempt to upgrade my iMovie. - Robert On Oct 24, 2004, at 09:07, James Asherman wrote: > On Saturday, October 23, 2004, at 11:16 PM, Robert L. Vaessen wrote: > >> Is there any way to burn my project to disc without using iDVD? > > There's always Toast. > > What you have described says that you have never been able to > successfully burn a DVD, even the tutorial. > Therefore either you have some major system or program problem, or > your hardware isn't up to it, or you are somehow misunderstanding the > process. > Maybe you think that's harsh but it seems to me that you are trying > to make a pizza by mashing up a pizza. > You might want to strip the tutorial down to about 1 minute and try > to follow all the prompts and directions. Read all the instructions > you can stand. > Can you play a DVD? > Can you make a data DVD? > Can you burn a CD with iTunes or discburner? > You are one revision behind on iMovie. > Jim