Authoring a show to a DVD

[Geff33]

I finally had time to transfer a recorded show from my Panasonic E100 to my PC. I burned the two hour show in the DVD-RAM , transfered the .vro image to the hardrive of the PC, and edited the commercials with Mpeg Video Wizard (nice sw btw). I then exported the show as mpeg2. I am using Sonic Foundry's DVD Architect (or is it Sony now?) to make the DVD. However it tells me that the mpeg2 must be re-encoded and at this rate it will take it 10 hours on an Intel P4 2.4 ghz machine with 1gb of RAM. Is this normal? Could I have missed a setting on DVD Architect to speed up the encoding ( have updated DVD Architect to latest)? OR should I be looking for a different DVD authoring software to use? TIA.

[Gil T Pleasure]

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 has an option to not convert compliant MPEG files. Check your DVD authoring software to see if it has a similar option. If it doesn't, I suggest you give MovieFactory a try.