[MacDV] iDVD encoding

[Geoffrey Knauth]

On an 800MHz G4 I find it takes 3t to encode and t/5 to burn to DVD.  
For example, one hour of video takes 3 hours to encode and 12 minutes 
to burn.  It surprised me too how long it takes.  Yesterday someone was 
telling me it's the audio encoding that takes the most time.  It's not 
just iDVD--Toast Titanium takes just as long.  I've decided encoding is 
best done overnight.

Geoffrey
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Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk

On Mar 19, 2004, at 09:26, Jim Simmons wrote:

> I have just recently decided to transfer my collection of VHS and BETA 
> tapes to DVDs. I use iMovie 4.0 and iDVD 4.0.1 to do this. The video 
> in brought into my G4 Quicksilver 867 MHz MAC through a Dazzle 
> Hollywood DV-Bridge. I store the video on an external fire wire LaCie 
> drive and have no problem doing this. What I have encountered, and I 
> hope someone can explain it to me, is the fact that when I call up 
> iDVD from within iMovie and ask it to burn a DVD of the movie I have 
> from the tape, it takes approximately 6-1/2 to 7 hours to burn a 90 
> minute DVD. It seems that iDVD spends about 6 hours converting the 
> code from iMovie format to the MPEG format for the DVD. Is this 
> normally what's to be expected? I am using system 10.2.8 as my 
> operating system.