iDVD 6: Exceeding motion menu duration prevents burning
Symptoms
In iDVD 6, you can create both standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) projects. In a standard 4:3 project, you can use up to 15 minutes of video in your menus (drop zones and backgrounds). In a widescreen 16:9 project, you can use up to 7.5 minutes of video in your menus.
If you have more than 7.5 minutes of video in your 16:9 project menus, you may be unable to burn the project or save it as a disc image. iDVD will not generate an error message when this happens, it will just fail to burn the project.
This will only occur if you have more than 7.5 minutes of video in your menu dropzones and backgrounds. One way this could occur is if you start with a standard project and then switch it to widescreen aspect ratio.
Products Affected
iDVD 6.x
Resolution
To avoid this issue, make sure you don't exceed the motion menu duration in your menu dropzones and backgrounds. You can check this in the Project Info screen (from the Project menu, choose Project Info). If the Motion Menus bar is red, then you will need to reduce the amount of media in your motion menus.
