I have an iMac 3.06 Intel core duo computer with 4GB RAM. I am trying to burn 24GB of MP4 video to Blu-Ray using Toast 10.4. In an hour it has encoded 3% of the first 2-hour video. At this rate it will take 33 hours to encode 2 hours of video, and 20 days to do the whole 24GB. This does not seem right to me. Twenty days to encode - and that's just to ENCODE - 24 hours of MP4 video. Then there's the time taken to burn it. I realise that my machine is not a professional one and that things would be a lot faster with an 8-core processor, or 2 or 3 or 4 8-core processors, but this seems to me to be ridiculous. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

I find that the percentage was not of the first 2-hour video, but of the whole 24 GB. So it will take only 24-30 hours to do the encoding. This is still very, very slow. I started at 5pm and at 7am it had done 48%. I suppose I have to stop using Blu-Ray or buy a faster machine. Is there are 3rd way?

Oh yes, you need horsepower to do blue ray...

I have a Mac Pro 2.8, eight core, with 16 gigabytes of memory and four internal SATA drives.

It takes me about 8 hours to encode a 3 hour Blueray disk.

Does anyone else have an issue after its done encoding it says the disc isn't big enough? Do you encode on automatic?