Does backup take this long or is it frozen? (iOS 5)

Question

I am attempting to update my iphone 4 to iOS5.  I already installed itunes 10.5, restarted it.  Plugged in my iphone 4.  It says its "backing up." However, the progress bar hasn't moved in the last 30 minutes.  My iphone says "sync in progress"  Is it frozen??  Does backup usually take this long?  This is the second time I have tried this.  last time, I tried clicking the "x" to stop the backup process, but nothing happened for the next 40 minutes.  Then I tried  "slide to cancel" on my iphone, got to the home screen, but itunes said it was still backing up!  So this is my second time trying this.  Please help! What's wrong? What can I do to fix it?

Answer 1

I just exported a self-contained QT file without converting it to reduce the size and it only took maybe 5 minutes if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, the file size was 13 gigs. Too big for a DVD<<</div>
Of course it's too big for DVD. DVD-Video is highly compressed MPEG-2. Take you self-contained movie and use Compressor to encode the file into MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio, then import those files into DVD-SP for authoring.
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Import the self-contained movie into DVD-SP directly and let it do the encoding after you've authored the disc.
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Import the self-contained movie into iDVD and let it do the encoding/authoring with it's consumerish one-button approach.
Am I going about it correctly and just need to have patience? Or is there a more efficient means?<<</div>
Patience is always a good thing, ESPECIALLY when rendering or encoding an 80 minute video from one format to another. But what you really need is a better understanding of the DVD creation process; it isn't as simple as exporting from FCP.
-DH