[MacDV] Re: Time spent making a DVD.

[Thubten Kunga]

Doesn't the iDVD 2.1 burn in OSX run in the background too?

k

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 12:32  PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

> On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 02:15 PM, SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Let's say that you want to take a show (1 hour + commercials) that 
>> you taped, import it, remove commercials, encode and then burn, 
>> roughly, how much time would you say that the computer is sitting 
>> there working, that you can't really use it? I'm guessing, at least 2 
>> or 3 hours.
>
> 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.
>
> Of course, if you make your DVD with some other tool that produces an 
> image file that can be burned with Disk Copy or Toast, your computer 
> isn't tied up at all - it can run in the background.
>
> SR