Creating DVD's

[MasterHD]

Today I just bought a new 8x DVD burner so that I could burn some home video's form my old 8mm camcorder onto DVD's. I also bought a DVD+RW disc for testing. My first attempt was to burn about 25 minutes of AVI video onto the disc at DVD quality. But it is taking a REALLY long time to render the video, about 25 seconds to render 1 second of video. Is this because I'm using the minimum requirement for the processor, 800MHz? Or is there some other bottleneck, or problem that I should know about?

Comp Specs:
Windows XP
256MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 8x DVD+-RW
800MHz AMD Athlon
Pinnacle Studio 8 for burning
I'm using a 50GB NTFS partition for video from a 200GB Maxtor HD

Thanks for any advice

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[mFC]

256mb pc100 sdram. thats your biggest bottleneck right there. save up for a nice new board, cpu and dual channel ram if youre going to do video authoring on a regular basis.

Chris

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[MasterHD]

> 256mb pc100 sdram. thats your biggest bottleneck right
> there. save up for a nice new board, cpu and dual channel
> ram if youre going to do video authoring on a regular basis.

Yeah, I asked someone else and they said it's normal for DVD's to render slow, but my comp sucks, so its even slower. I've upgraded EVERYTHING on that 4 year old comp except the board and CPU, and it's about time.
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[Freaker]

Remember to get two sticks of ram to enable dual channel.

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