Encoded assets

Greetings,
Where do the encoded assets live? I know there is a command to delete them, I just want to see how much space they are taking up.
thanks!
Laurie

I have gone through the resources folder I have found nothing that is name specific to my project. All the names are quite generic. They all seem like elements to templates. I have many QT's that have been encoded and none of their original names are there.
Maybe the question should be...is there a naming convention for encoded assets within the "resources" folder that would make them apparent?
thanks!
Laurie

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As I understand it, encoding fomats your digital video clips and photos (assets) into Standard DVD mp2 format so that it can be burned to a DVD. If there has been an error in the encoding process, then you remove the old encoded assets and start over. There are numberous reasons why there can be errors in the encoding process.

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I'm using my Dual 2.7 machine.
After a successful burn, I thought perhaps that subsequent burns would be faster, since the assets had been encoded already during the first burn.
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Interestingly, in iDVDs Customize > Status menu, one of the two movies (the one without chapters, and the smaller of the two) is shown as "Done", while the other, larger movie (with chapters) just has a a grey bar after it.
This project takes over an hour to process the menus alone and overnight to do the rest, so this is quite the inconvenience.
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There are two movies on the DVD... one is about 2hrs15min or so, the other is about 27 minutes. The longer of the two never shows "Done" status. The other does. This after one successful burn.
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Was just a shoot in the dark. I try to have > 25Gb free. So You are well up to it.
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Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
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• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
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