Would using 2 disks speed up burning a DVD

In a previous life I optimized the performance of applications by distributing I/O over more than one drive. Would it help to do something similar when burning a DVD project either to a DVD or to a disk image? Presumably iDVD is reading the iMovie definition and writing the encoded date somewhere ... originally I thought it was writing it directly to the .img file (for the disk image) but from a previous thread I think that most of the writing is to the .dvdproj file (package).
So would it help to put the iMovie file on drive A and the .dvdproj file on drive B? and the .img on drive A (assuming that .img is written at the end after iMovie file is not being used)? Or is there a better way of doing this .. or is this not an issue if the application is not I/O bound but CPU bound?

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