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24 hours and still waiting for iDVD to finish
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Hi Guys
I hope you can help me
I am still fairly new to the mac scene having bought a 1.25ghz eMac not too long ago.
I have updated the Ram to 1Gb and added a pioneer dvd107 multiformat DVD burner, no other mods.
yesterday I made an iMovie project using the DV footage taken over christmas and then clicked the iDVD button to make it into an iDVD project.
I added a theme - another short movie, (quicktime) and tem selected burn.
I also added the RAW footage into the DVD Rom section making te total disc size 3.8GB
After almost 24 hours my emac still says "multiplexing and Burning"
the emac doesnt appear to qhave crashed and i have started activity monitor to see whats happening.
it says:- Process ID 917 Threads 13 Real Mem 253.14Mb Virtual Mem 1.58GB
The CPU usage never exceeds 20% - there is noting else running apart from norton antivirus, (and activity mon of course)
The virtual mem figure is still rising so i think it is still working.
Why has it taken sooooo long ? I know it is a g4 emac but even so.
Why does iDVD not use more CPU power - would the process not be 4x as fast if it used 80% CPU ?
I would be extremely grateful for any ideas as to why this is taking so long and also any suggestions as to how to make it faster.
If i fall in love with my emac i may decided to ditch my PC all together and buy a G5 - (but i cant bring myself to do it just yet!, I think my time is now 50% Mac 50% PC)
Many thanks for any advice you can give.
Chris
PS power save mode is set to never for Mac and HDD - only the screen turns off.
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Hmmm, that's very odd. I find that when a program is doing complex work (like translating to MPEG-2 and building a DVD) usually takes all available CPU power. If the program isn't, something has gone south.
I found an issue with GarageBand and the screen blanking out. Basically, GarageBand would crap out with an error the second the screen went dark. I don't know if this problem exists with iDVD, but I'd try putting your screen blanking to never under Energy Settings in Preferences and see if you can get your DVD burned.
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I've burned DVDs with my 1.25GHz PowerBook G4 so the processor family & speed shouldn't be an issue as far as generating DVDs from iDVD.
(Last edited by PBG4 User; Dec 27, 2004 at 10:32 AM.
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Hi Chris,
How long (in time) is all the video you are putting onto the DVD?
I've only used iDVD a couple of times but a 1 hour project of mine completed overnight in less than 8 hours on my 1.25GHz eMac - I cannot give you a more accurate duration as I went to bed and woke up and it was done.
Are you trying to do comething very long? e.g. over 2 hours - there is a finite limit, though it will depend on quite a few factors - if your pictures have lots of changing detail and perhaps are grainy (noisy) the MPEG compressor has to work harder and longer to get the project to fit into 4.7GB.
Having said all this, it is possible it may have crashed - hopefully someone else will chime in.
[Edit] Looks like PBG4 user has - probably more valid response as well...
Will
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The only thing I can add is make sure your screen saver isn't coming on. I'm the IT guy at a library where we have 3 G5's for patrons to make videos with. While the new version of iDVD can take quite a long time to encode it should not be taking that long, sounds like it crashed. I'd just try doing it over. If your woried about wasteing DVD-R's there a hack where you can have iDVD output to a disk image! Just search google for "iDVD easter egg"
Good luck,
Bart
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Cheers for the replies so far.
The screensaver is off - I never have it on anyway, i just make the screen turn off. The rest off the power settings are set to never off.
I had thought also that it had crashed but was holding out hope that te fact that the virtual memery was constantly rising was a sign that it was still doing things. the Virtual mem usage is up to 1.77GB now.
The actual footage is about an hour long which iDVD said was filling up about 1GB of disk space.
The footage was taken and edited from my DV camcorder.
I added the raw footage to the DVD ROM section, using iDVD which then said the DVD was 3.7Gb or something like that.
If the hour of footage burned by the first reply (sorry forgot your name) took 6 or seven hours ten does that mean that my dvd could potentially take 24 ~ 30 hours ?
the rest of the mac seems to respond ok - i just launched safari and it seems fine.
am quite confused by iDVD maxing the CPU at 20% - when i launched safari it CPU usage rose to 80% whenever in clicked anything that required processing.
Is there a setting that says that a single app may only use 20% ?
Many Thanks again
Chris
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24 hours is too long. Something is effed up.
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