Should iDVD take 2.5 hours to burn a DVD?

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stimpycat

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As a recent switcher, one of the things I have been most eager to see is the speed improvement in burning DVDs - given that Macs are all about photos and making dvds (according to the I'm a Mac ads).

Today I tried my first one - 120 mins of video, 6.5 hours to go (edit: came down to 2.5 after 20 mins)

My old Dell took just over an hour for the same video - surely, surely I am doing something wrong and this can't be normal?

Mac Poo 2.66 2GB RAM 300GB free HD. :confused:
 
My MacBook can burn an iMovie movie to DVD in less than an hour. You are doing something wrong. And change the title of your thread, its meaningless.
 
stimpycat said:
It's not meaningless at all - I dropped £2,000 on a computer that takes 6hrs to burn a dvd.
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He's saying it is helpful if you describe your problem in the title, then someone that has experience with that issue might be able to help you or comment.
 
stimpycat said:
Today I tried my first one - 120 mins of video, 6.5 hours to go! WTF?
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What program are you using?
What are the settings?

More details and we'll be able to help.

I have a Mac Pro myself, and quite frankly those nubers you've given are mad. Something is wrong…
 
Redline13 said:
I can understand your upset. I would be also. If you provide more information I bet someone can offer a suggestion. Something is not right.
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What kind of information? Just a 2hr movie bring burnt to DVD-RW - I have a standard superdrive - can't think of anything else I have done.

Opened iDVD, dragged an 700MB avi into a theme - pressed burn - put the DVD in the drive and that's where I am at now. No other progs running apart from firefox.

Edit: The 6.5 hours has quickly gone down to 2.5 so that's better - however that's still a whole hour and a 1/4 more than my old smelly Dell which is frankly rather disappointing.
 
stimpycat said:
avi
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Ah hah. I suspected as much. I think that's what slowing you down. Do a forum search on "iDVD avi" or google it for tips to speed it up next time. It usually involves converting the .avi wrapper into something more modern and iDVD friendly.
 
TheAnswer said:
Ah hah. I suspected as much. I think that's what slowing you down. Do a forum search on "iDVD avi" or google it for tips to speed it up next time. It usually involves converting the .avi wrapper into something more modern and iDVD friendly.
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cheers will give it a go!
 
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