[funkboy]

I could use some help, a DVD is due in about 2 hours:

how long does a DVD with five slideshows and a short movie take to encode and burn? I have five slideshows, along with a 12 minute slideshow I created in iMovie on this DVD. It's been on Step 2: "Menu and slideshow rendering and encoding" for about ten minutes now, and it's not even a progress bar, but just the striped one that doesn't indicate how far along the job is.

If I started at 1:00 pm, can I expect to have this done by 3:00 pm? This is on an iMac G4 800, 2X SuperDrive.

Thanks!

[funkboy]

Furthermore, why doesn't iDVD have a progress bar for encoding?! This is very scary indeed if this is what Apple has in vision for the future of the OS.

I want to know how much longer until my DVD is done... don't tell me there's no way that it could quickly calculate roughly about how many more calculations it will take to complete the encoding process?

By the way, I shrunk my project down to simply the movie and a static menu, so now it's on step 3... I hope a 12 minute movie doesn't take longer than 2 hours to encode... if so, I'm disappointed, and in trouble... I have the setting on faster, too, where the max is one hour. I hope this finishes soon... anyone have any estimates for me?

[LeeG]

Can't say for sure - I don't think anyone could without seeing the files you're dealing with, but I encoded a 5 min movie (from imovie) and one slidehsow, and after a half an hour I gave up and went to bed - it was done in the morning.

This was on a sawtooth G4/500 though...

Lee

[funkboy]

For future reference:

I scaled back my DVD to a non-motion menu and a 12 minute movie. It took my iMac G4 800 either 35 or 25 minutes (I timed it, but forgot to write it down! D'oh) to do the whole shebang - that included writing to DVD. If I wanted to make a second one, it would have presumably one a lot quicker.

That was with the quality set to the faster encoding, and ... umm... yeah. It turned out great, got a lot of compliments on it.