Why is a 90 minute DVD taking 8 hours to encode?

I've got a top of the range MacBook Pro with 200GB free. It's taking 8 hours to encode a 60GB video. I'm assuming it's taking this long because of the raw video size - is there any way I can compress the video into an appropriate format before encoding the DVD? Otherwise, it's going to take ages...
Thanks!

If a 90 minute video takes up 60GB it must be in High Definition, as standard DV streams only take up 13GB per hour.
In that case your CPU has to do quadruple the work, and 8 hours may be about right.
Best thing to do is leave it to do it overnight!

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This is my first post here and even being a total Mac beginner it surprised me when idvd 06 took more than 14 hours to encode and burn a 24 minute imovie project to dvd. Does anybody know WHY this happened? I bought this machine to do nothing but video editing, but if this is the way it's going to be I will have no choice but to return it to the store and try something else. I have an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz 17"/160GB/250GB external/1GB RAM
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Luis
Round here we spell 'idiot' as 'inexperienced'
Encoding/rendering is the same whether you 'save as disk image' or straight to a burn via iDVD, less of course the burn time which comes later. BTW, I use Toast 7 to burn, not disk utility. More options. Burn time, including 'verification' is about 50% of the running time, or a little less.
The main advantage of saving to a disk image is that you can burn as many copies as you like from it without having to re-encode from scratch. This becomes ultra-important when it is a wedding video that every relative and their dog want a copy of!
I have a G5 iMac, not as fast as a dual Intel machine, but does what I want. My son has a Macbook Pro (Intel). The main difference is that an iMac can house a much bigger hard disk that a Macbook.
I can't say for sure, but I simply assume that a desktop Mac is faster than a portable laptop, even if they have the same processor. (200 Level 4 contributors will now pile in to tell me that I must be nuts.) Just my gut feeling. But yes, a Mac Pro will be faster than anything else - one of the reasons they are twice the price (and no monitor).
If you are going to do video editing for a living then use a Mac Pro with Final Cut Pro. If it is a hobby, an Imac with the biggest hard disk it can take and lots of RAM will easily suffice. The choice of software is yours.
And while we are it: burn at the slowest speed you can, 2x or 4x, a slow burn gives a better burn! Also, use decent media. I have never had a 'coaster' from Verbatim or Fuji DVD-R, but lots from all other brands I have tried. Others here say Maxell are also very good.
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As I understands it - This has nothing to do with Your iMac - Any Mac would take the same time.
May be OS and support on the Window-PC platform handles this better.
• .avi - is no specific codec (file format) but a container and the codec in this might not be one that iDVD can directly use (encode to .mpeg2 as on DVD disks)
So either it just can't do it - or -
iDVD has to back-encode to an usably codec - THIS IS WHAT I THINK HAS HAPPENED
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Ok, so I finished editing a video and I went to export it. Sent it to AME, and the Estimated Remaining Time said it had 40 hours to complete. On my old computer this would've been normal, but now I have it on my much better computer so this makes no ******* sense. The specs for the computer I am currently using to export are...
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WAV audio, 14:58 long, 1500kbps bitrate, 164MB
GIF, 500x500, 43.5KB
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Audio Sample Rate: 48000 Hz
Audio Display Format: Audio Samples
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In addition to what Steven said, imagine your workflow on this computer.
You have a FX-4100 CPU. It does not have hyper threading, only 4 cores, lacks full support for SSE 4.1+ extensions, which are used extensively during encoding if they are available.
You have only 8 GB memory, which is about bare minimum.
You indicate only a single disk for all the editing stuff.
You start with video material with 1024x768 in a 1366x768 sequence which you uprez to 1920x1080.
You use PNG's with 3353x3429 resolution.
You export to a highly compressed format with a final size of 873 MB.
All these resolution changes and PAR changes need to be calculated by a CPU that lacks hyper threading, that lacks the sorely needed SSE extensions and it has to do that in a very restricted memory space, using a single disk, that is needed for media, media cache, previews, project, export, pagefile (which is used extensively) and Windows house keeping. It is like a very popular nightclub that attracts lots of people every day, but has only one narrow single door for entry, departure and deliveries. That causes traffic jams, with long queues of people waiting to get in and similar queues of people waiting to leave. That single narrow door is like your single disk.
The waiting is further aggravated by the doorman who has to direct traffic at the door and he is hampered by his arthritis, so he can't move very quickly, like your CPU. Another factor is the very limited space of the vestibule, like your memory. Finally, when people are squeezed into that tiny vestibule, it causes further delays to leave your coat or retrieve it, like the compression you apply.
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