iDVD 4.x: More suggestions for successful burns

Yesterday we posted the (admittedly extreme) precautions that one user has resorted to in order to get "good" burns of projects in iDVD. Several readers have followed up with their own additional suggestions. Kevin Spahr writes: "The one thing that has worked every time (so far) is to [burn the disc right away before closing the iDVD project]. I found that if I close a project and then re-open it I may have problems burning the disk." And Jason Halvorson notes that it's critical to have enough free space on your hard drive:

"Make sure your boot up drive (or the drive that contains your home folder) has more than 4GB of drive space available. It seems that no matter where you have the movies/pictures/data stored (external drive or another partition), some amount of temporary room has to be available in your user folder. One iDVD project would not burn correctly until I had 12 gigs of space available. I thought I read some where that space for the temporary files can take up to 3X the space of what your project requires."

Finally, another reader has reported that disabling the Palm Desktop background daemon allowed him to burn successfully:

"I have recently created too many DVD coasters using DiskUtility and Toast -- mainly buffer underrun errors. I had been turned onto Activity Monitor a few weeks ago for other reasons; I thought to quit a Palm Desktop background process, and had success burning a couple of DVDs using DiskUtility. I'm crossing my fingers that this is the problem. But I think it is more complicated than that."

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