I was wandering what is a estimated time to burn a dvd movie... a friend of mine claims it takes her 10min is that possible... because for me it takes about a hour... please let me know... thanks
To actually BURN the files ONTO the DVD would take around 10 minutes, but in fact the whole process of transcoding ,conversion etc would take around 90mins or so. In one way she is correct but basically I find her claim hard to believe. Call her bluff, get her to do one for you whilst you are in her presence.
This is a loaded question asked many times over. there are programs that will burn a movie (from start to finish) in just 15-20 mins! Why, cause it burns on the fly......I have such a program and NEVER USE IT! I usually use DVDFab Express for it's simplisity, and that takes about 45 mins total (I use this program only if the compression quality is over 80%). Otherwise I use DVDDecrypter,DVDRebuilder with CCE...... and that take anywhere from 96 mins to well over 120 mins for the best qualtiy backup around. Soooooooo if you want to call this persons [bold]bluff[/bold] then do what Gwendolin mentioned but be aware that if your friend burns on the fly and burns at 16x it may be possible to do. Or, your friend is just talking about burning a movie after it has been transcoded (encoded) and only burning it to disk time. Find out which is meant here.
If it is just the burning process then your friend is most likely right. To give you the correct answer it all depends what is the size of the movie and also the speed you set the burning process at. As an example, just finished burning a 4390mb size file set at 4x in 15mins 21sec.
In my estimation time is not of prime importance.In my book it is the quality of the burn, will it still play next time I sit down to watch it? To knock out a burn at flat chat that is useless in 6 months time is just a waste of the time it took to burn it and of the media.
Everyone's replies to your question are on point and it really does depend on what process you use, which programs you utilize, and even what disk you are trying to back up. Genreally speaking - a program like shrink - where you use Lets say DVD Decryptor, then shrink. It may take DVD-D about avg 15-20 mins just to decrypt the movie, then you pull it up in shrink and burn at 4x that is another 15 mins - thats about 30/40 mins total. Lets say you have something like DVD43 or ANYDVD running in the background. This means that it decrypts without you putting it on harddrive first - if you do not want to. You use one of these with lets say Nero (which is basically an upgraded version of Shrink) - Well if you brun on the fly - meaning - you have ANYDVD running, you put your original in one drive, and you put your blank in a different (writable) drive and you say COPY AT ONCE - your movie can be finished between 8-15mins depending on what speed you burn at - about 8 mins at 8x, 10 mins at 6x, 15 mins at 4x. [bold]in my experience - one way is no better or worse than the other - the main thing I try to concentrate on is good media.[/bold]. If you really have good media, you should be able to burn at 8x if you choose-many ppl swear by 4x and thats is fine also. I have burned at 4x, 8x, 6x, on the fly, hard drive first, then burn - used several different programs, and what I can say the most is - I have only had playback problems when I used poor media.
