Burning Time for DVD on iMac G5

How long does it take to burn a one-hour standard DVD on a new iMac G5? That is, to build and burn. Would I be slowing WAY DOWN from a G4 Dual 1.4?

Dear Rod, by "build" I mean encode, before the burn. DVD Studio Pro uses this term. So for encoding and burning, what does a 1-hour DVD take on the iMac G5
Thanks, flyingcircus. I know you meant 'encode". Its just that one can be encoding from all sorts of "raw material", using all sorts of software to do so. People in this forum are usually posting questions about creating DVD's from sources like commercial dvd's, elgato TV's and the like, or using products like iMovie and iDVD to produce such things, rather than DVD Studio Pro. Hence the query about sources and software. I suspect the DVD Studio Pro forum is more likely to provide you with a useful answer to this one.
You might find it worth casting your eye over the performance comparison on CPU and graphics tasks of the latest iMacs with the earlier models, and with PM G5's, at http://www.barefeats.com/im21.html.
THis should give you a reasonable idea of the comparative performance of the latest model. Several of the other barefeats comparisons, at http://www.barefeats.com/, are also likely to be relevant.
Cheers
Rod

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GB5:
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