Burning iDVD movie takes 4hrs+?!

code777 · code777 #1 (**permalink**)

02-15-2005, 10:55 PM

ok, i have an iMovie project that is about 11GB and 1hr long. When i imported it to iDVD and tried to burn the project, it took over 4hrs. Is there another way to do this? Did I do something wrong? Should it take that long!? Help!

Wapa18 · Wapa18 #2 (**permalink**)

02-16-2005, 12:39 AM

yeah it's gonna take pretty long, especially on an ibook. don't get me wrong, ibooks are great, but not the fastest for video encoding. 4 hours sounds pretty normal.

code777 · code777 #3 (**permalink**)

02-16-2005, 08:37 AM

actually the burning was done on a 15" Powerbook. It took a total of 4.5hrs to complete. After the encoding was done burning copies only took maybe 40mins. My friend was like, "**** my Powerbook is gonna explode!!!!" the thing was as hot as a grill! We were worried.

But the DVD came out well and everything worked out fine! Just wasn't sure if that was normal but I guess it is. Maybe soon this time will get cut down???

rman · rman #4 (**permalink**)

02-16-2005, 10:55 AM

I would be happy if on my 500Mhz Ti powerbook, it wold take only 4.5 hours to encode and burn. It takes any where between 8 and 14 hours for me to encode and burn.

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code777 #1 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	02-15-2005, 10:55 PM ok, i have an iMovie project that is about 11GB and 1hr long. When i imported it to iDVD and tried to burn the project, it took over 4hrs. Is there another way to do this? Did I do something wrong? Should it take that long!? Help!
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Wapa18 #2 (permalink)
Guest Posts: n/a	02-16-2005, 12:39 AM yeah it's gonna take pretty long, especially on an ibook. don't get me wrong, ibooks are great, but not the fastest for video encoding. 4 hours sounds pretty normal.
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