Compressing LARGE 16×9 footage file onto DVD

[Andrea Lee]

I did a bit of checking online and from other trouble shooting issues, I guess if I were you I would try whatever I could to figure out what the problem is. I’m sure you have already done all this but if not here are a few things I have done in the past when good old iDVD shoots me an error message. I try doing test dvds with just the simplest menu/theme I can find and no audio on the menu. (usually green linen I think it is called…) Sometimes I find that for some weird reason, my custom menu just wasn’t processing right and it works with a simple or different menu.
Second, try redoing your conversion. I know, this will probably take a very long time to process again, and I’m not sure how you ‘shared’ it in iDVD, but maybe try using compressor on the large 50g file and compressing it that way to get it smaller. I have burned up to 19 g files using iDVD so as long as you get it around there, from my experience it should work.
Lastly just for fun and I am probably way wrong but, why not try taking the original 50g file and throwing it into Idvd on a simple menu and try burning it. It most likely won’t work, but see if it will compress it automatically for you.
Just some last resort options, I’m not sure if any of these will work, but after looking at other forums it seems the small stupid adjustments are what has solved the problem for others. good luck!