OK, I am leaving the country tomorrow and trying to make some room on my laptop hard drive for all the photos/video I'll be shooting.

Since I am a photojournalist, I shoot a lot of assignments. I normally make a "to burn" folder after I am done shooting and then burn a batch of DVDs when the hard drive gets kind of full.

Now I put what I need to burn onto my external hard drive and have started to burn. But it's taking way too long.

I can burn DVDs straight from my external harddrive right? Will it take longer to do so? I figure I can just burn when I get back from that.

Thanks!