[MacDV] iDVD encoding

[Dorothy Hennings]

On my G4 it takes that long to burn a 1 hr DVD
On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 09:26 AM, 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.
>
> Jim
>
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