[MacDV] Re: Burn Ad Infinitum or For Nuttin'

[James Asherman]

On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 12:18  PM, James Asherman wrote:

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> On Friday, April 16, 2004, at 12:01  PM, Steven Rogers wrote:
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>> On Apr 16, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Jim Heid wrote:
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>>> After you do all this, check the Status pane, and don't click Burn 
>>> until it reports that all encoding is complete. (So much for 
>>> multitasking...)
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>> I've just started playing around with version 4, and it seems like it 
>> doesn't want to pre-render when I have enough content to kick it into 
>> "2 hour" mode. Is that correct, or am I missing something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> SR
>>
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> That is correct. No background encoding for long projects. It doesn't 
> start till you hit the burn button.
> Jim
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>

And in connection with this whole thread, this iDVD 4 is wonderful but 
the encoding process is CPU intensive an requires that you have nothing 
else running (within reason) and leave it alone.
  My 1hr 40min project took at least 5-6 hours to encode and process 
viewer showed it hogging 95% of cpu.
Jim