My iBook making a DVD as seen through the bottom of a glass. I've been transferring some mini-DV tapes to DVD for some friends and while I'm impressed w/how easy this is to do w/iMovie and iDVD, I'm very disappointed in how long the process takes. If you have a full mini-DV tape it takes about an hour and a half to copy it onto your hard drive, then you might spend 10-15 minutes making chapters and setting up menus in iDVD. That's all fine. The big wait comes when you actually click “burn” in iDVD—be prepared to wait at least 8 hours while your computer crunches that video.

Now I understand why people have been crying for faster macs. My iBook is a 1.2Ghz G4. I once thought that was more than sufficient.

(Note: These movies I've been burning for my friends aren't the least bit “blue” in the usual sense of that word w/regard to movies. It was just descriptive and a nice alliteration for the title of today's shot.)