<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Well, last night, after my project build
had sat on 38% from 4pm to 10pm, and checking in Apple's "Activity
Monitor" utility that there was no serious activity going on (DVDSPro
was flittering between 1 and 6% CPU activity and nothing else was hitting
higher than 8%) I hit the cancel button. What a waste of electricity! ;-}</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Not knowing any other options I changed
my preferences to Background Encoding and thought that it may have a better
chance of doing it at its own pace.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Later that night, in the assets tab
I noticed that there were a few items that had green lights in the "Available"
column and one or two had orange lights. I was guessing that the orange
items were busy encoding in the B'grnd and the green light items had finished
encoding.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I looked again in the Activity Monitor
utility and noticed that there was a "DSP Encoder" process running
and it was hitting 80+% CPU activity so it was actually working.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This morning I took a look at all the
assets and there were no orange lights, just green, however one of my large
video assets had no lights next to it (green or orange). The encoding settings
were the same for it as the others. Any thoughts about why this may not
have encoded or why there are no indicator lights next to it? Double clicking
on the asset played it in the Viewer so it's not dead as far as I can see.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As for where the encoded items reside,
there is an MPEG folder that has appeared in my project's folder. I can
see reduced-size QuickTime files of my in there and the total folder is
approx 2.1GB in size. This is far short of the 4GB disc it will be burned
to but if this folder is missing my last encoded video (mentioned above)
then it may end up coming to the 4+GB total.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Would my assumptions be correct here?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">And if I change the disc properties
in DVDSPro to a dual layer disc, will it then begin to re-encode the assets
again in the background to the newer disc size or do I need to force it
to do it?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Many thanks,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cojcolds</font>
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