Slooow encoding

catfish · Post by **catfish** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:48 pm

I have just tried the DVDWorshop trial--I assembled six videos, and a short slideshow of 8 photos, The Program is very intuitive and easy to use, added motion menus, and outside of a couple of crashes trying the subtitle option on a couple of clips--all went really well

Until --the encoding and burn--this project was 3.1 gig and it took
12hours and 59 minutes to encode and burn---

This on a 3hrz 1gig ram dual core ??

Should it take this long ??

Regards Buz

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:26 pm

No, you must have done something wrong. What did you do and how??

catfish · Post by **catfish** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:14 am

Hienz---I know it sure seemed to be way to slow

I admit that the files (6) short 5-10 minute were wmf, created using Premiere, the intro file runs about 20 seconds and it was a DV-Avi,

However it still should not have taken that long, I don't think ?

Regards Buz

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:19 am

Mixing different file formats in one project is going to cause all sorts of different issues. It all needs to be converted to DVD compliant mpeg2.

If, at the end, even after so many hours, you ended up having a working DVD, you didn't fare to badly I think

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:32 pm

Encoding lossy distribution formats (WMV, non-compliant MPEG-1, -2 and -4, DIVX, XVID etc.) is always a very lengthy process because each frame has to be mathematically reconstituted from several other frames (sometimes 30 or even more) before encoding that frame to compliant MPEG-2 can begin. This will inevitably cause quality loss, as well. This is exacerbated if you choose 2-pass encoding.

catfish · Post by **catfish** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:16 pm

Thanks Guys---Yep I know the implcations of mixing non avi --I guess I was hoping for more than what I got

However the DVD plays fine, and does not look too bad considering it was not just DV-Avi

Thanks

Buz