[MacDV] Re: Time spent making a DVD.

[Steven Rogers]

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 05:34 PM, Brett Koonce wrote:

>> Well, the capture is real time. You may or may not want to supervise 
>> that. Then the editing takes a couple of minutes, then exporting a QT 
>> file from iMovie takes about 1/3 real time (on my 867) and making the 
>> DVD itself in iDVD takes about 2x real time for the encoding and 
>> burning, but the machine is only tied up for the burning part, which 
>> is about 70% of view time.
>
> If you slide the iDVD Encoding/Burning window over to the side of your 
> screen, you can merrily go on your way using other apps under OS X.

You can do that during the encoding part, but doing other processing 
during burning risks a buffer under-run, which gives you a DVD-R 
coaster.

SR