Does burning a movie to CD take a long time?

[Guest]

I am trying to burn my saved movie onto a CD so that I can transfer it to my
friend's computer to be burned onto a DVD. Does this process normally take a
long time? When I start the job it says thousands of minutes. The movie is
only 7-8 minutes long. I wondered if it really takes that long. Is there
another way to transfer the movie to his computer? Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Save your movie onto your hard drive first (and this is even a long process)
then copy that file to a CD or e-mail it to him if it isn't too large.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rachel,

I save my movies to the hard drive first (save it where you can find it
later, of course) as a high quality ntsc or AVI-DV type file. You can save
in lower quality WMV formats and still create a DVD later,,,but the 'High
Quality' NTSC and AVI-DV file types give outstanding quality results for a
DVD. Saving to CD creates a 'High Mat' type CD which is virtually useless
right now anyway. Once I have the movie file on my hard drive, I can use my
cd burning or DVD burning software (Easy Media Creator 7) to create discs. A
7 to 8 min. movie will be too big to email. You may be able to transfer the
file via FTP or windows messenger type program if you don't have CD software
to get it onto a disc. I'm assuming you probably have a cd burner. Software
that came with your computer or burner added on later can get the movie file
onto a CD. Papa John's site has complete info on saving as types and getting
movies onto disc. Check some of the replys on this board for his web
addr...or just do a web or ' google' search under papa john.
Hope this helps.

RandyPC