[jayr6666]

As above,i have approx 40 gig of family holiday footage on my sony dcr-sr75 that i need to copy to dvd and distribute to three seperate parties(in-laws, and the like).Now I have nero 9 which i've used to copy two dvd's of the same material(4.5gig) and it looks good with menus etc,but the discs took over three hours each!Now if my calculations are correct(and it's not rocket science),three copies of each 4gig of footage is going to take 9 hours and times that by ten for the total ammount of footage,then thats going to be over 90 hours of hard-going for my pc!
My question is this,is this par for the course or can i simplify the menu structure and recording time?I just want dvd's that are going to look half decent and play in virtually any thing you put them in(apart from the toaster).I'm not up on this editing malarkey so any help would be greatly appreciated.By the way,i've lost my copy of motion picture browser!cheers

[MarkE19]

Just make one copy of each DVD to start with. Then use Nero to make a copy of the DVD's which should only take a few minutes per DVD.
3 hours is not too long to convert the video to MPEG-2 and burn to a DVD, especially if you have a fairly old PC. You could try stopping all background programmes such as antivirus & firewall etc to see if this speeds things up a bit (but make sure you are disconnected from the internet first!).

Mark.

[senu]

Originally Posted by MarkE19

Just make one copy of each DVD to start with. Then use Nero to make a copy of the DVD's which should only take a few minutes per DVD.
3 hours is not too long to convert the video to MPEG-2 and burn to a DVD, especially if you have a fairly old PC. You could try stopping all background programmes such as antivirus & firewall etc to see if this speeds things up a bit (but make sure you are disconnected from the internet first!).

Mark.

True
Another thing you can do to make it even faster is to create Iso or " nrg" images of the disc on your PCs HDD ( this is how I archive DVDs ect) Burning a copy off that is much faster and easier. Only the creation of the initial DVD video need ake any time .

[jayr6666]

Originally Posted by MarkE19

Just make one copy of each DVD to start with. Then use Nero to make a copy of the DVD's which should only take a few minutes per DVD.
3 hours is not too long to convert the video to MPEG-2 and burn to a DVD, especially if you have a fairly old PC. You could try stopping all background programmes such as antivirus & firewall etc to see if this speeds things up a bit (but make sure you are disconnected from the internet first!).

Mark.

Thanks for your reply!Of course you're right,should've thought of that.Yes,i did stop all apps because the transcoding bumped my cpu usage to 100%.A 1.8 gig intel p4 just doesn't cut it these days!

[jayr6666]

Originally Posted by senu

True
Another thing you can do to make it even faster is to create Iso or " nrg" images of the disc on your PCs HDD ( this is how I archive DVDs ect) Burning a copy off that is much faster and easier. Only the creation of the initial DVD video need ake any time .

Again,The obvious eludes me!cheers.

[MarkE19]

Originally Posted by jayr6666

A 1.8 gig intel p4 just doesn't cut it these days!

Having upgraded from a P4 1.8Ghz PC with only 1Gb RAM just 18 months ago I can honestly say that no it doesn't cut it any more

Mark.

[jayr6666]

Originally Posted by MarkE19

Having upgraded from a P4 1.8Ghz PC with only 1Gb RAM just 18 months ago I can honestly say that no it doesn't cut it any more

Mark.

It's become an a thorn in my side,this pc,but it's like part of the family now.Would hate to put it out to pasture!Probably turn it into a nas or furniture or something!