why does it take 4 hours to burn a 30 minuit home movie in a recordable dvd?

Answer 1

cause it has to transcode everything to fit and play on the DVD and DVD players but a little tip the best thing to do is burn to a image so its does it right without any errors on your hard drive at the slowest speed possible then burn to actually DVD still at slowest speed possible the reasoning is if a error occurs you do not waste a dvd and the slower you burn the less of a chance of a error and the less of a chance that the dvd will be jumpy when you put it on a standalone player I convert and burn movies everyday and have been doing it since cd-rs came out and VCD's were the only way to go so believe me i got the experiance

Answer 2

hi sweetie cutie pie, the reason that the dvd writing takes so long time has many reasons. i m listing a few of them
1. if u are using a re recordable dvd it takes more time as each time u insert a disk it first checks for the available space and if ther is not enought space and u have set the setting to write the new dat anyways the recording software erases the data on the disk , formats that and then starts recording, this initial process can sometimes take upto and hour.

2. the more probable reason is that the video u are burning to the dvd as a video disk need to be encoded and then written, and this process it a lot time and resourse consuming, if u want to avoid this type of delays just chage the recording settings of the video recorger so that u can easily write the video.
some video recorders record in any format but while u tranfer tham to the comp they give u an option to change the video format. there u can select the file format to .dat that would reduce ur time drastically to around a minute to burn a minute of video. in that way it wud take 30 mins to burn a dvd of 30 mins video

Answer 3

Because the Movie has to be recoded to DVD format before it is burnt. Depending on the speed of your system this can take 30 mins to the 4 hours you quote

Answer 4

30 min is play time; 4 hrs is recording time .. which involves conversion of data into digital format and all other tasks to make it readable by a DVD player.

Answer 5

It often has to transcode the data to a file format which DVDs can read.

Answer 6

What kind of connection do you have? Sometimes it is the connection and sometimes its what your using to download them. Hey, downloading takes time sweetheart, grab a bag of popcorn and set back...