Im new to burning DVD's, about 2 month ago i bought a new DVD Writer which came with Nero, i tried burning my first DVD with NeroVisionExpress, went through the usual procedures (menus, visuals blah blah etc), but when it went to write it said:

Transcoding Menus

Estimated Time Left: 12hours!

I went to a computer shop and asked about good DVD-R's and i tried a Verbatim one, it cut down significantly to 4hours.

But even then thats a long time to burn a DVD, thats half a DVD, actually the film is only 480mb.

So why does it take so long to burn, and is it just me, or does anyone else find it takes to long, maybe my PC is setup wrong?