How Fast will a G5 Burn a DVD?

Hi everyone,
I'm looking to upgrade to a G5, and I'm curious how long does a Dual G5 take to burn a fully loaded DVD (in both iDVD & DVD studio pro)? Not just the burning alone, but the time it takes to process DVD menu's, slideshows, ect. Thanks for all the help in advance!
-Anna

How fast is the computer that's going to be doing the authoring/rendering? Your signature says only that you've got a PowerMac G4.
I think iDVD uses single-pass encoding only, which would be relatively fast, but on a PowerMac G4, I doubt that it'll be any faster than realtime. I don't use iDVD so admittedly, I'm not sure. I can test it on my PowerBook if I remember to do so to see how long it tends to take.
On another note, are you aware of what you're about to get yourself into with filming a wedding, taking photos, and doing a highlight montage & photo montage? It looks easy, but it's really not. I know from experience, as I'm involved in wedding videography with one of my friends.
Are you planning on using just one camera and moving around a lot? Or will you have multiple cameras so you can get different angles of the ceremony? I ask this, not only from an artistic view, but mainly because you'll have to capture this video in the time between the ceremony and the reception - and capturing the video takes the same amount of time as the video's runtime (1 hr. of footage = 1 hour capturing). And if you add additional cameras, your capture time obviously increases.
Then, you still have to edit the montage together, which, depending on how fancy you want to get, may take at least 1/2 hour or more just for a rough cut. Then comes the DVD authoring and burning.
The photo montage is the easy part. You might be able to get good results by sending an iPhoto slideshow (perhaps with the Ken Burns effect enabled) to iDVD. That at least won't take too long. You could always play that from the computer if necessary.
I know it's not the same thing as what your cousin is asking for, but it might be more enjoyable for the guests to see something like a photo montage of the bride and groom using older photos of them. Pictures of them as kids, teens, young adults, etc. I was shooting a wedding recently where a friend of the groom presented something like this at the reception and it went over very well.
I hope you're being compensated in some way for doing all this for your cousin. I think it's going to be a long day for you. Best of luck to you.
And I'll try and remember to check out the iDVD speeds like I said. We might be able to get a rough idea of how long it'll take once you let me know what speed of computer you'll be working with.

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