a simple way to burn a dvd?

I burned my first dvd today on my new Mac Mini.
My 30 minute home movie only took 2 hours to get burned to a dvd. Is there a more simple method of transferring a home movie to burn onto a dvd that needs minimal editing? I could have had this movie all done and burned to a dvd using my set top recorder. All of the editing features are nice if you need them, but it seems like a lot of hoops to jump through. I guess that I am too used to simply pressing the play button on one machine and the record button on another. But I do like that kind of simplicity.

iDVD 5 has "One Step DVD" in which the software basically guesses at the scenes. I've never actually done it, but I saw it at a demo in my local Apple store. It may not be that flashy, but it gets the job done. The longest part of DVD-making is rendering the movie for DVD playback/burn. This is automatic, of course, but that's what consumes the most time, and there's not much one can do about it.

badmojo said:

iDVD 5 has "One Step DVD" in which the software basically guesses at the scenes. I've never actually done it, but I saw it at a demo in my local Apple store. It may not be that flashy, but it gets the job done. The longest part of DVD-making is rendering the movie for DVD playback/burn. This is automatic, of course, but that's what consumes the most time, and there's not much one can do about it.

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Yeah, I watched it render and render and render.
I guess there's nothing for it and unless I need to make considerable editing I'll stick with my Panasonic set top. The finished dvd-r does seem to play in more dvd players than do the ones burned with my Panny. I have a hacked Apex that will not play any dvds burned on the Panny, but will play those done on the mini.

Have you tried using dvd+r media? By the way, more ram can speed up the rendering quite a bit.

badmojo said:

Have you tried using dvd+r media? By the way, more ram can speed up the rendering quite a bit.

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I have 1g of ram and that's the max for the mini.
I have nearly 300 TY dvd-rs for my Panasonic and they work great for it. I don't want to invest in another type of media just for the mini. For simple recording and editing I will stick with my Panny because it is faster and easier to use.

Good enough.