Average time for DVD burn on Toast?

[Jperez51]

I have toast 11 Titanium and am using it to burn some videos I have on my 2008 MBP. I started burning/encoding them last night around 10:30pm. It's now 1:45pm and they have barely started to actually burn onto the dvd. The encoding part took more than 12 hours!! I have a C2D Intel, 4gb ram and 500gb HDD...is that a normal time for the encoding/burning process and is there a way to make quicker or a program that is quicker?

Thanks

 

[heisenberg123]

I have toast 11 Titanium and am using it to burn some videos I have on my 2008 MBP. I started burning/encoding them last night around 10:30pm. It's now 1:45pm and they have barely started to actually burn onto the dvd. The encoding part took more than 12 hours!! I have a C2D Intel, 4gb ram and 500gb HDD...is that a normal time for the encoding/burning process and is there a way to make quicker or a program that is quicker?

Thanks

i use burn and can make a 1 to 1 copy of a dvd in about 30 mins

 

[Jperez51]

I tried using burn and every time the process would start, I got an error message.

I posted about it in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1355584/


What's the process for using burn? Did i maybe do something wrong?

 

[heisenberg123]

I tried using burn and every time the process would start, I got an error message.

I posted about it in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1355584/


What's the process for using burn? Did i maybe do something wrong?

there is a "copy" tab

then Open, find the dvd, than burn, it reads the disc than prompts for a blank disc

 

[Jperez51]

what about burning to a DVD from a file on my computer already?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

what about burning to a DVD from a file on my computer already?

Do you want to burn a video DVD (playable by a video DVD player)?
What format and codec is the source file and how long is it?
In order to find out the codec, you can use the following applications:

• VideoSpec (free)
• MediaInfo (free)
• Media Inspector (2.99 USD € in the Mac App Store (MAS))

When done, you can use the "Report" (VideoSpec) and "Export" (Media Inspector) button to export a report,
attachable to your next post via the

button.
In MediaInfo you have to go to the Menu Bar, select View > Text and copy the text via CMD+A > CMD+C and paste it via CMD+V into your next post.​

Also what settings do you use in Toast Titanium exactly? And have you looked at Activity Monitor to see, how much CPU Toast uses?

Using Activity Monitor to show you CPU and RAM usage​

 

[Jperez51]

I have some videos in .m4v file format and they are all about 40 mins long. I have default settings on Toast.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

I have some videos in .m4v file format and they are all about 40 mins long. I have default settings on Toast.

What about the rest of my questions?