Now, don't for one second think that I believe Microsoft to be innocent in the area of flagrant neglect of polishing their products. They get to visit their local Mac repair shop, spend a lot of money, lose a lot of productivity, and waste a lot time, all because Apple couldn't be bothered to do make the effort to finish the job. So, what if a naïve user was facing these problems? Simple. This from the "It's easier than a PC" company? This from the "It just works" company? Disappointing doesn't begin to cover it. Really? That's it? Well, yes, turns out that is, indeed, it. I do some more research and it appears that the recommended next step is to reformat and start again. Even better! One in every three runs produces a different error message! How can the same procedure run several times in succession produce different results? What am I doing wrong? Should I have sacrificed a chicken or something before I started? I try booting in single user mode to the command prompt and running the fsck utility. So, I boot from the install DVD and run Disk Utility and (I am not that surprised) I get much the same result. OK, so I run Apple's Disk Utility which grinds away at the boot drive for a few minutes before admitting, rather grandly and totally unhelpfully, that the disk is screwed and Disk Utility wants nothing more to do with the whole mess as it can't fix a volume that OS X boots from. I do, however, get a clue from one posting that suggests checking that your disk drive is healthy. The number of people posting about serious, show-stopping issues with the program is astronomical! Indeed, it rather looks like Apple doesn't give a rat's derriere where the topic of iDVD and its problems are concerned. These hits have dates as long ago as 2005! What the Apple have anything useful to say on the topic? Nope. Let's see what other users have to say … Google returns 15,600 hits for "idvd Error During Track Initialization"! Terrific. How about saving the DVD content to a disk image? Twenty minutes later, same problem. Maybe the Mac needs reprogramming with an axe … nope, I'll save that as a last resort. Maybe the Mac needs restarting … nope, restarted, ran up iDVD again, loaded the project, and nyet. I start burning again and 20 minutes later I get that same message. Huh? OK, let's try what Apple recommends and delete the encoded assets. Select 'Delete Encoded Assets' from the Advanced-menu and try burning this project again." There was an error during track initialization and iDVD can't continue burning this DVD (the disc has not been touched yet!). Whirr, whirr, clunk … 20 minutes later, I am shown the error message: "Error During Track Initialization. I could run it in the iDVD interface and everything worked great – it looked good, it worked well … I was ready to burn a disk. Let's go back to plan A and move all of the content over to iDVD.Īn hour later I had my DVD project set up. Why not use Adobe's DVD creation tool, Encore, rather than iDVD? An hour later I had figured out why … this is a very complicated and counterintuitive tool (unusually so for Adobe).
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