It just took me 2 hours to render a 60 min DVD is this to long . I have a 2.8 Gig machine 500 Meg ram 120 Gig HD. The DVD was unusable. As this was my fiest DVD I have no idea what is going on.

2 Hours for an hour long DVD is normal.
It seems like a long time, but due to all the rendering and encoding, it takes about that long - plus you have to incorporate the Burn time.

You're good to go my friend.
(i let mine run over night, or when I leave the house)