[MacDV] iDVD encoding

[Erica Sadun]

>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.

Sounds right to me.

-- Erica