<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi all,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As I mentioned in my email to the list
yesterday I began doing a testrun build of my 2+Hrs footage DVD. The final
burn is supposed to be done to a dual layer disc but I don't have my LaCie
burner yet so I'm cramming it onto a single layer build so I can at least
test the flow of the disc and make sure it all works as it should - especially
the 4:3 to 16:9 changeover.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I started the build last night at 8ish
and it went through to 25% complete pretty quickly but it then sat on 31%
until we went to bed near midnight. To my surprise, this morning at 7am
or so it was sitting on 36%. My wife called me from home not too long ago
(12noon) and it was at 38% so it's still moving but inordinately slow.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have the encoding settings up as high
as they can go - double pass, "Best" for fast motion etc. and
I'm on a 17" AlBook 1.0GHz.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Does that about seem right for encoding
speed on such settings on such a size project?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Should I expect to lose about 2 days
if I'm going to do projects of this size using those settings on such a
Mac? Or is it much slower than it should be because I'm trying to cram
it all onto a smaller size disc and it's having to work much harder to
crunch it down?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I could have reduced the quality settings
for this test burn but I was also interested in seeing what kind of a job
DVDSPro was going to do with 2+hrs of footage to a single layer disc.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ta muchly,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cojcolds</font>