3 hours to burn 38 minutes?
i have a 38 minute movie (Best Quality) that's 7.6GB.
IDVD says it will take 3 hours to burn a DVD! Could that be normal?
don't have much experience with this stuff but sounds awfully pokey.
thanks for any voice of experience. do i have a problem or is this par for IDVD (i have im3)
Lou,
Updating the OS and iLife probably won't do a whole lot to increase the time to create a DVD since this is primarily hardware related with the processor type (G4, G5, etc.), processor speed, and amount of RAM playing the significant roles.
How much RAM do you have in your machine? If you have not maxed it out, that might be a way to add a little speed to the process, but it will still be a very slow process. You will just have to get used to that. Sorry.
Patrick
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How are you expecting to distribute it?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
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