Burning DVD

[Bogey Man]

I created my file in Windows Movie Maker (V6.0) and from there chose to
Publish Movie. That opened up Windows DVD Maker and I proceeded to choose to
make a standard DVD.

All was going along quite well and the progress bar proceeded at an amazing
clip until it reached 70% (this was a 60 minute video) The 70% mark was
reached in about 17 minutes. It stayed there for about 20 minutes and went
to 71% and again stayed there for a long time. During these pauses, very
little appeared to be happening. I checked the performance tab of the Task
Manager and the CPU usage was down to about 5%. When the progress bar got to
about 75% everything speeded up and the disk was finished burning after 65
minutes. The way things started, it appeared that the disk would have been
completed in under a half hour.

It plays perfectly both on my computer and DVD player.

What could have caused the very long delay when the progress bar was at 70%
and am I likely to encounter this every time I burn a DVD?

I have an AMD quad core computer with 8 gigs of ram, 512 MB video card, and
750 gig hard drive with 550 gigs free.

Thank you.

 

[Saga]

Although I might not be able able to give a good answer, I am sure others
are wondering which Windows version you have. Is it XP or Vista and is
it 32 or 64 bit.

Saga

 

[Bogey Man]

The operating system is Vista Home Premium X64
Ram: 8GB
HD: 750 GB
Video: 512 MB
Processor: AMD Quad Core 9500

 

[Carnton]

The operating system is Vista Home Premium X64
Ram: 8GB
HD: 750 GB
Video: 512 MB
Processor: AMD Quad Core 9500

 

[Carnton]

I encounter a similiar problem when trying to create my very first home
video. The status indicator got to 58% with 2 minutes remaining from an
original 17 minutes while I was trying to burn the movie to a DVD. After
about half and hour I assumed it was hung up and I cancelled the operation.
I next tried a CD-RW and got the result but this time it stopped at 17
minutes but still at the same 58%. I have Windows XP Home Media Edition.
Did you ever get a practical answer to your original question?

 

[swordm]

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