Posted by Spud Demon on 11/15/96 11:31

"FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> writes in article <1131502171.294295.19700@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> dated 8 Nov 2005 18:09:31 -0800:
>
>Spud Demon wrote:
>
>> Recently I took a partly-failing Tivo in for an exchange. But before I did
>> it I had to be sure I had transferred everything I wanted to keep to DVD.
>> It was a lot of work! For each 2 hours of source video it took:
>>
>> 2 hours to transfer to camcorder
>> 2 hours to import into iMovie (some devices can combine these first 2 steps)
>> 1 hour to edit out commercials
>> 12 hours (overnight) to render to a DVD image on a 866 MHz G-4
>>
>How many source hours were you saving?

Something like 12 hours. 5 single-layer DVDs in the end.

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