How to capture to minimize encoding time?

I'm capturing video from some old family VHS tapes before all of our VCRs die. I'd like to put the captured video on a playable DVD. My first one has been encoding for about 24 hours, which seems longer than it ought to be.
The video is coming in from a Canopus ADVC-100 converter box over FireWire into the Mac. I've been using QT Pro to capture.
Are there any capture settings or other methods that would give a significant reduction in iDVD encoding time?
Thanks in advance!

You must be a very patient person...... But why not do what i did? .... since I had over fifty Mini DV, VHS, and SVHS T120 tapes to quickly burn to DVD-R. I bought one of these:
DVD Recorder with Digital inputs
Went to Fry's Electronics here in San Marcos, CA and purchased a Daewoo DVR07 DVD-Player / Recorder (I think I paid under $80 after rebates) with FW inputs and connected the minidv camcorder directly to the recorder or VCR which then records in real time. No long waiting for encoding to take place. Does it on the fly complete with Menu, interval chapters, etc. which you set with the remote and it even records in sessions as opposed to write at once.
It's much faster and it actually looks pretty good (but it does not have all the fancy menus and higher quality / pro settings you'll find in iDvd'08).
A second option (EyeTV3 from Elgato) is on the following link:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8559403&#8559403
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