Dvd burning problem.
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It's too bad you're having problems. DVD encoding can take an enormous amount of CPU time. I'm typing this on my older 800 MHz iMac G4 while encoding a DVD in the background and it's barely keeping up with my typing.
Unfortunately, really the only way you can increase the _encoding_ speed is to buy a faster computer. Of course, if you're running processor-intensive programs during encoding that will slow it down too.
Something to check: what kind of DVD media are you burining to? I bought some CompUSA DVD-Rs because they were really inexpensive. Turns out they are only 1X DVDs. That means it takes about 30 minutes to burn a dvd, even though my burner can do 4X. With 8X discs that I bought recently it takes less than 15 minutes to run a DVD.
Still, the encoding part takes hours.
What kind of Mac do you have and what kind of media are you using? What version of the operating system (Apple menu>About This Mac)? What version of iDVD?
Now, for the second problem. I've never had audio/video out of sync with iDVD. Can you go into more detail about exactly what kind of project you burned when the audio and video went out of sync?
Doug
It's too bad you're having problems. DVD encoding can take an enormous amount of CPU time. I'm typing this on my older 800 MHz iMac G4 while encoding a DVD in the background and it's barely keeping up with my typing.
Unfortunately, really the only way you can increase the _encoding_ speed is to buy a faster computer. Of course, if you're running processor-intensive programs during encoding that will slow it down too.
Something to check: what kind of DVD media are you burining to? I bought some CompUSA DVD-Rs because they were really inexpensive. Turns out they are only 1X DVDs. That means it takes about 30 minutes to burn a dvd, even though my burner can do 4X. With 8X discs that I bought recently it takes less than 15 minutes to run a DVD.
Still, the encoding part takes hours.
What kind of Mac do you have and what kind of media are you using? What version of the operating system (Apple menu>About This Mac)? What version of iDVD?
Now, for the second problem. I've never had audio/video out of sync with iDVD. Can you go into more detail about exactly what kind of project you burned when the audio and video went out of sync?
Doug
