IDVD is rendering ridiculously slowly

Call me crazy, but I didn't expect my movies that had already been prepared for sharing in iMovie to take 24+ hours to burn to DVD.
I have a MBP 2.4 GHz 2GB RAM with 10.5.4 and iLife 08.
I have several iMovie projects (about 20 min each) that I am burning to this DVD+R DL, plus a large MP4 video. I wanted them to all play continuously without having to select them in succession on the menu, so I put the iMovie projects and the movie file in a slideshow, as suggested on another forum. It's about 180 minutes of video total. I'm trying to burn the dual layer DVD at "High Quality". It's about 1/3 done "Processing Slides and Transitions"/"Rendering Slides" now and claims it's going to take another 17 hours. It's currently on the large MP4 part, and it seems to have slowed down even more here in terms of expected completion time. iDVD is topping out at about 150% processor usage, and there is extra room to spare there. No other app is doing much.
Any thoughts? Thanks

Call me crazy, but I didn't expect my movies that had already been prepared for sharing in iMovie to take 24+ hours to burn to DVD.
OK, you're Crazy
Making BIG DVDs requires lots of patience. I'm not sure 'movies that had already been prepared for sharing in iMovie' gets you much.
I suspect there is a lot of transcoding going on (especially with the mpg4 file). MPG-2 needs to look at adjacent frames to do it's compressing. MPG-4 doesn't have 'adjacent frames' until it's rendered so I expect deep within iDVD's workings your mpg4 file must first be reencoded with the DV or Apple Intermediate CODEC.
Walk away from your machine and let it 'do its thing' - over night - or perhaps longer.
F Shippey

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