iDVD encoding

[Jim Simmons]

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.

Jim