On Oct 12, 2005, at 9:25 PM, ta131js wrote:
On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
The hours that iDVD works on the video are all spent encoding and
compressing the audio and video, not burning.
Thanks for straightening me out. Then I take it that switching from
Pioneer 105 to the current model is not going to save
my daughter that much time. Right? Still, with the price of superdives
so low now, I don't mind buying a one and put hers in my G3 400 B&W.
Am I asking trouble? It is the revision 1 model that we are often told
to avoid.
Once that first DVD is created, iDVD will then ask whether you want
to make any more copies. If you do, each copy then takes about ten
minutes each to burn.
Yup, that's how my daughter makes duplicate DVDs for her friends.
Jim
If she has the 105 and I have the 107 superdrive, I'll bet the encoding
and burn times will be about the same for either burner. In fact, the
current Pioneer model (108 or 9?) just mostly adds dual-layer
capability, as far as I know, which iDVD 4 can't handle anyway, so I
suspect that even the 109 will take about as long as earlier models to
encode video DVDs, all other things (Mac, OS, etc.) being equal.
After you make all the video DVD copies you want to from iDVD at the
end of a long session of encoding, and then close iDVD, if you ever
want to make more copies of the same video later on, you would have to
open iDVD once more and then go through all the hours of encoding all
over again (it doesn't save the encoded version). To avoid that, this
is where Toast 6 saves the day, simply copying the finished DVD in ten
or twelve minutes with no further encoding necessary.
As for putting a superdrive in a G3, I can't comment on that, never
having had a G3.
Tom
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