It takes forever making DVDs with Nero Vision for me! Help
 

It takes forever 3-3½ hour to make DVDs (using Nero Vision) for me.
Is there some way that I can shorten down the time?
I doesn't make much difference depending on if the AVI/MPG/MPEG file(s) are 300 or 700 MB.

It'll take longer if you're CPU isn't up to the task or if you have HQ settings up on maximum. Took me a good 1hr 1/2 to encode 1 episode of X-Files on my 3.2GHZ PC from DVD to .mp4 with HQ settings up as far as it can go.

I got a about 2 GHz and 480 in RAM.
Is there any other way I can burn DVDs, except make to videofiles to ISOs? Is it complicated?
Burning ISO files goes much faster for me.

I would suggest you try another program to burn the dvds It seems that nero vision is having a problem detecting the max speed of your dvd drive.

Burning ISOs takes much less time because it's a less complex task than converting Videos into a DVD compliant format.

Also, your processor speed is fine (though better would help), but your amount of RAM could certainly be boosted which could help a bit.

I used to make lots of DVD's for my ex, and they ALWAYS took me 3 hours. Transcoding is the problem, if I remember correctly - burning did not take too long in comparison, even on my external DVD writer @ 4X. I probably had an awfully fragmented HD, but still I think that transcoding is quite CPU intensive. My PC is a Pentium IV 2.8GHz with 512Mb RAM, btw.

Oh, and speaking of ISOs... if you're not terribly in a hurry, I suggest burning to ISO and then burning to DVD from that. If something goes wrong with the burn and you try to record it again, Nero Vision will re-transcode the bloody thing, wasting some 3 more hours (at least it did that to me every time). Burning to ISO should never cause problems and will leave you with a copy to fall back on if the recording fouls up.