First burn successful

[PRB14]

I must be doing something right (although I don't know what) but my first attempt at burning a slideshow was successful except for the time it took to create the slidesow and burn it.

The slideshow had 198 photos (about 400 mb each) and music (total 972MB). Took about 1 hour and 10 minutes to create and burn after I selected burn. Is this the time it normally takes to create a DVD this size?

I have a P4 2.8 512mb 120Gb HD partitioned into 5 drives.

Phil B.

[thecoalman]

Is this the time it normally takes to create a DVD this size?
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Sounds about right, converting a 1 hour DV-AVI to DVD compliant material with a machine like yours takes 2 hours+ on average.

That's excluding creating the menus and the actual burn time. Most of the time that it uses creating the video is not taken up in burn time but conversion time.

[PRB14]

Does this mean if I set up 4 slide shows of 1GB each to burn on one CD it will take over 4 hours to convert and burn?

[htchien]

The more transitions you add in the album, the more rendering time to burn the DVD.

H.T.

[PRB14]

htchien,
Does that mean it will take over 4 hours?

PRB14

[thecoalman]

There's no set time, the example I gave above was just that an example. As Htchien pointed out if you add a lot of transitions it will take longer. Even two machines with the same CPU can give vastly different results if they have different mobos or other different components. The amount of time is subjective to your particualr machine and configuration and what your doing with the video. the only way to find out is give it a try but don't be suprised if it does take 4 hours.

You can optimize your computer for video editing by disabling unneeded background tasks.. start here www.blackviper.com

Additional speed boosts can be accomplished by overcloking your CPU, There's many tutorials available on the internet on how to do that.

[PRB14]

thecoalman,

Thanks for your reply. Will give it a try soon and post the results.

Thanks again.

PRB14