Quick Notes on iDVD 3.01

I finally got around to burning a DVD with iDVD 3.0. The footage ran 1 hour and 27 minutes, just three minutes under the overall limit. When I went to burn the DVD, I got a warning message telling me that projects over 60 minutes long could be made but at slightly reduced quality. I elected to do that, even though I had been surprised by the warning. I couldn’t tell the difference when I ran it on the TV later; but if you can stand no quality loss at all, be aware that the limit is 60 minutes of video, not 90 as has been portrayed.

Also, when I first started iDVD, it gave an estimate of 232 minutes to encode the project. I didn’t record the exact time it took (though that is something I’ll do in the future to figure out workflow requirements), it seemed like it was almost half that. It looked like, at least as far as the time estimate was concerned, iDVD was not aware of the second processor.