I'm using Easy Media Creator 9 to transfer some home movies from VHS to DVD.
I use the capture option which brings the video clips in as mpgs.
I then use VideoWave to assemble the clips in chronological order with still title cards between clips. I add transformations between clips and title cards. I then move the whole thing to MyDVD to complete the setup for burning. There I add a menu background to show the year and a short bit of my own music for the background.

I have been doing all my movies the same way. But for some bizarre reason, 3 of the 5 I've set up so far have burned beautifully in about half an hour. The encode preview window opens, shows a bit of the movie, then closes while the program encodes a chunk of the movie. Then the preview window opens again for a brief time and so on. But the other 2 movies don't work the same way. The encode preview window stays open so I'm watching the entire movie running in slow motion. After an hour of this the movie was only about 50% encoded. I stopped the process and recreated the movies from scratch. But no matter how many times I redo it, the results are the same.
My title cards are TIFs but that didn't seem to make any difference to the 3 movies that burned quickly. I tried converting the title cards to PNG but that didn't help.
I've also tried both hardware and software rendering. Nothing seems to make a difference. But for the life of me I can't see why I'm getting 2 different results when the movies are set up identically!

If anyone has any suggestions for curing the problem I would greatly appreciate it. At this rate, I'll be 90 before I finish copying all these movies!

Morgan

My computer configuration:
HP Pavilion Media Center m7640n TV PC
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual-Core Processor 5000+
2048 MB PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM memory
320 GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA hard drive
Super Multi DVD burner with Light Scribe Technology
NVIDIA Geforce 6150 LE Graphics with TurboCache
10/100Base T-network interface and 56k modem
USB 2.0 and FirewORE PORTS

Most likely the movies that take so long have to be completely rendered to be DVD compliant which of course can take a long time. The ones that go quickly are allready in the correct format and the only rendering required is with the inserted pictures and transitions.
I assume you are creating your title cards outside of Videowave. You can of course create these easily in Videowave directly into your project and don't have to bother with tif's or png etc.