[P1] dvd burning

[Joe Jones]

A burner that wanted to take 8 hours for an 8 minute segment would have 
to burn at far, far below the minimum burn speed of 1x. Are you sure 
that wasn't encoding? In order to get a movie on DVD you must encode it 
in mpeg2, which takes an huge amount of time on slower machines, 
especially the G3 which can't take advantage of the Altivec 
optimisations of Apple's and Discreet's mpeg2 encoder.

Was the operation "encode and burn" in one step?

I takes my 600Mhz iBook about 20 minutes to copy a 30 minute dvd disk 
image to a DVD-R using a Formac Divideon 2x DVD burner (including lead 
out). The disk image was created using Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio 
Pro 1.5 on a dual 450 G4 and it was encoded into mpeg2 using Discreet 
Media Cleaner 5 on the same machine.

We needed to burn 40 discs, so I did 20 on my iBook and the dual G4 did 
the other 20 using its DVD burner.

By far the most time consuming part of creating a DVD is encoding - on 
the dual G4 it took about 6 hours to encode 25-30 minutes.

Joe

On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 16:25 Europe/London, Brian Olesky wrote:

> On 9/4/03 1:19 AM, "George Slusher" <gslusher at themacisp.net> wrote:
>
>> Burning the movie per se isn't the problem: it's CREATING the movie in
>> DVD format. That requires iDVD or one of the more sophisticated movie
>> creation programs, all of which require a G4.
>
> Actually, for me, it was the problem. I started to purchase an 
> external DVD
> burner (from la Cie, I believe), and it had the software included that 
> I'd
> need for burning some short films I wanted to save to DVD. But with my
> iBook, they said the burning time would be incredibly long--something 
> like 8
> to 10 hours, if I remember correctly--for an 8 minute piece of film! 
> That's
> what killed the idea for me.
>
> Brian
>
>
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