[Crusoe]

Update: Success, the video burned in fine. I also found at least one article that iDVD 4 supports up to 2 hours of video. I'd still like to get some performance info as this can be great fun.

Yesterday I did my first serious editing project within iMovie of a video 1 hour 38 minutes long.

I have a 1Ghz 17" Powerbook with 768MB Ram, 60 GB HD 4200 RPM. After importing the video to the hard disk I have 15 GB left. The show info with iDVD shows the final size needed to be 3.09 so it'll fit no problem. I started encoding and left for the evening, when I returned iDVD had crashed. I read through the logs dump briefly and it appeared to be a memory problem. It crashed at over 4 hours at what seems to be when it finished encoding but can't confirm.

So I restarted the PB and am running it again today. We'll see how this goes but a I few questions:

How much disk space will encoding need? I have 15GB on start, I thought it would only need the 3.09 GB for encoding but the disk space is down to 10.7 GB and it should finish encoding soon based on yesterday's encode time (before crashing).

What is the length limit of videos if any for iDvD (assuming they don't exceed DVD-R's space)?

I'm going to do this much more often so I'd like some feedback on performance. Can some folks post applicable system specs and encode times for size of video? I'd certainly like to see some G5 stats both dual and single processor (if applicable?) as I'd like to reduce encode times and would buy a G5 of some sorts to speed things up if performance boosts are substantial.

[k_munic]

while coding, iDVD needs est. 12 Gb of "hidden" file space on your start volume; hidden because you cannot see it in the finder and it is erased after coding.

i'm doing my private videos on my good old Cube, 450MHz, 832 Gb Ram and a "external internal" ide connected superdive (i prolonged the internal IDE to the outside of the Cube to be able to use iDVD). for a 40min video this combo needs 12 to 15 h for coding, iLife3 of course, 04 is not supported