IDVD showed 5 hours to put together an mpg 2 DVD from .mov files & .jpgs

I am trying to put together a quick movie without all the trimmings onto a regular DVD to play on any DVD player & standard def TV. My camera shoots .mov & jpg files. I would like to be able to make DVDs quickly to give to family members who are eager to see the results. I usually save what ever I do as an ISO, then from this I can burn any amount of DVDs.
I tried using one step DVD & magic DVD,to do this, but the progress window showed it would be 5 hours to do. Why so long? The actual footage is about only 20 minutes long. I was advised to use these programs for this purpose. Can I just put the movies & photos without fancy menus etc? just for viewing?
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Hi
A 3 Years old MB should take about same time as movie + menu to be calculated.
Rediculosly long times - most often depends on two things
• free space on boot (Mac OS) hard disk less than 5GB - my minimum is 25GB
• use of strange material as .avi, .wmv, .m4p etc
(due to that iDVD has to back convert this to what iDVD use natively)
I convert all
video to - streamingDV .dv (QuickTime .mov)
audio to - .aiff 16-bit 48kHz (NO .mp3 - convert this)
pictures - .jpg (everything converted to this)
My about 10 Years old G3 took about 36 hour per 1 hour movie to be calculated.
(before iDVD days - Formac Devideon)
Yours BengtW

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