My Nero Vision Express Telling Me 6 Hours To Burn

[baloney mahoney]

Is this normal? I have a movie that is only 1 Hr and 30 Minutes that I am trying to burn using Nero Vision Express. After I finished making the project I then clicked on the Burn button. Now it is saying that I have 6 Hours remaining time and the progress bar is moving at an extermely slow rate. I have Windows XP, using a Sony DRU-820A DVD burner and Nero Express Suite. I set the recording speed at 16X which I am told is the maximum speed that I can burn at.

But 6 Hours! This can't be true, can it?

[jtoolman2000]

Of course! Most of that time you see is for all encoding that your project will need in order to turn it into the DVD you are after. NVE is probably the worst choice you could ever use. I'd be shocked if it even burns and even if it does it will probably give you troubles during play back.

Without even being told by you I bet I can guess that you are trying to make a dvd from some AVI movie you got somewhere. Since it is likely a DIVX or XVID encode and not at all DVD complient, it has to encode to MPG2 format and then be restructured to DVD files. That is what NVE is attempting to do. Best thing is to being to learn ( by reading here ) the proper way to edit, encode and author, using reliable dedicated tools. The results will almost always be far better than a wanna do it all tool like NVE.

[redwudz]

With Nero, yes, probably true. It sounds like it wants to re-encode your entire video, which takes a fair amount of time and will decrease the quality. The burning, when it gets to that point, should take the normal amount of time.

You may be able to tell it to turn compliance off and burn it as is. But if the video doesn't meet DVD specifications, it may not be playable. See 'What is' DVD to the upper left for the DVD specification.

Most of us don't use Nero for much of anything except burning. It's not a very good encoder or authoring tool. You would be better off to use the individual tools to make a DVD. Lots of guides available here, along with the tools. <<<<<<

And welcome to our forums.

[baloney mahoney]

Gosh! I'm not sure what the original format was. I see in the folder where I saved it from the original DVD is several files with the extension .VOB and a couple more with the extension .IFO. I took all these files and went through the step where it asks you if you want to combine these into a single file and I responded YES. Not sure I should have done that but I did. Anyway after it got through doing that I did notice that it was saved as an MPG file. I know nothing about this kind of stuff and this is my very first try. The Nero software came with the Sony drive so that's why I'm using it. I wouldn't know a good piece of software from a bad one at this time. Basically I am just experimenting around with the various features of this Nero suite and I have been unsucessful using the 'Burn-At-Once' feature (always a burn failure at last step). I really thought that it would be a simple task - just read in the data from the original DVD and rewrite it back out to another DVD-RW disk.

Oh well, thanks for your reply. I guess I will learn as I go along and stumble and fall many times.

[jtoolman2000]

Well it sounds like you were trying to back up a DVD?
You weren't too clear in your 1st post so we assumed it was an AVI DVIX or XVID

You really need to use other tools for that and drop NVE.

Rip and if needed, shrink your DVD ( full or movie only ) with DVD Shrink ( Free ) to an ISO file and burn that same ISO with DVD Decrypter ( also Free ) back to DVD.

If it is a very new DVD release with Arcoss or Ripguard prtection, rip with DVD Fab Decrypter
( latest version and also free ) and run the complete disk now ripped as a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders in your HD through DVD Shrink as is it was from the actual disk using File Mode

Remove whatever you do not need, Create ISO and burn as before.

SHould not take more than 1 hour total, otherwise something is serioulsy wrong