Time display in iDVD

[danaaprildarren]

I am making my first DVD with iMovie/iDVD. Is there a way of knowing approx. how long the disc will take? The only thing that displays is a dialog with stages, but their is no indication of time. Is this something normal or did I skip a step?

Also, can I let my iMac stand still and let the monitor rest, or will that interfere with the quality of the movie?

Thank

[FCPguy]

Encoding and burning can take up to a couple hours! depending on processor speed and ram. So keep that in mind, I definitely like to just take it easy on my mac when burning- I haven't had a bad disk yet from overdoing it! (Burning a dvd is pretty processor intensive, and the less info you're messing w/ the hard disk the better (but if you've got external That's what I've been lead to believe)

Say, That's a good question... does anyone know if it's better to move all your files to the HD the apple is burning on? before the burn? or just as easy to burn of external HD with no flaws... I usually drag the entire folder to the machine itself, but I think I'd save a lot of time just burning off of the external. Anyone ?

[thoughton]

Never tried it with iDVD, but with Toast I burn directly off my external FW HD all the time (burning on internal drive). I only ever burn at 1x though (slow mac, 667mhz powerbook g4). YMMV

Don't see why it wouldn't work though. Firewire definitely won't be the bottleneck (approx 40MB/sec throughput compared to 1xDVD throughput of approx 1MB/sec).

[FCPguy]

I was sort of thinking about back in my PC days when you had to copy a cd to your internal HD and stop using all apps and hope you don't kick the tower Thank God for APPLE (though PCs are useful too, but ugly!) he he