Approximate Burn Times by Length of Project

I'm new to iDVD and just yesterday burned my first project, 10 minutes worth of footage and it took about 30 minutes to burn. Is this typical?
Can people who have more experience w/ iDVD assign some typical burn times to the following projects?
10 minutes of video:
30 minutes of video:
1 hour of video:
2 hours of video:
Also, I used a 4X DVD-R disc. Would it be faster w/ an 8X DVD-R disc? Is so, would it burn twice as fast as a 4X DVD-R?
Thanks for your thoughts.

In my short bit of experience, I have found that you can expect about one minute of processing time for the video section for each minute of video. Then, at the beginning, the processing of the write in and menu could take a while (anywhere from a few minutes to 15 or so depending on what you put into the drop zones, etc. The biggest hangup seems to be in the processing of the audio portion which comes after the video. The shorter your project the shorter the audion processing time but typically what I have been getting is about 20 minutes for audio processing after processing a video of a 30-40 minute project. And some people have had the experience (I did too) of having the audio processing take literally hours. There seems to be a bug in the program. You can check some of the other threads on this.
And, BTW, 30 minutes to burn a 10 minute project is not unusual. My general expectation is 1 minute of processing time for each minute of video plus 20 - 30 minutes for the audio when things are working right.
I have an older G5 (Dual 1.8 GHz late 2004 machine) so that may be a factor as well.
Don't know about the speed of 8x vs 4x as I burn my projects to a disc image and then use Toast Titanium to burn the actual DVD at "Best Speed"
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