Does anyone know why it takes to long to get a movie onto DVD. I am trying to do this and the process is taking forever. It is only at the stage of converting title and has only done 5% in 6 hours. Is this normal. I am using fit and burn is VS9 as the movie is just over 2 hours long and won't fit otherwise. Even when I have tried a shorter movie it still takes forever.
It's pretty safe to say that the rate of rendering you are experiencing is WAY outside what would be considered the norm.
For anyone to really get some answers for you we need you to fill in your system specifications as best you can on your profile page.
Also we would need to know the properties of the files you are authoring and the output properties you have selected.
NOTE: the "Fit and Burn" feature of VS9 works ok for some when trimming down the size of a file by a little but has been known to fail completely especially when cutting down the size by a lot.
Hi girly, thanks for getting the data.
First, I think you should start a new thread on the Video Studio board for this problem, not the DVD section. The reason for this is that you really don't have a DVD problem...yet!
Secndly, you are outputting to DivX which is a codec that I am totally unfamiliar with so my help would be very limited anyway.
Thirdly, if you right click one of the clips in the project you are trying to render and select properties (in VS9) it will show both the video properties and the audio properties of the clip. It is essential that you post these otherwise no-one will be able to get a handle on the possible problem. It is important that you post those properties of the clips as well as where you got them from and how you got them. From a DV cam captured using firewire? A DVD cam?
Finally, when you go to the Video Studio forum you will see two "sticky" posts at the top of the forum, one is a "Recommended Procedure" and the other shows how to post correctly so that you can get a good answer.
Read them both, especially the recommended procedure one and see if there is something you are doing that is causing the trouble.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
Aha, Problem solved you are trying to convert from a DivX codec to a DVD compliant MPEG.
Divx also Xvid and MPEG4 are all basically the same. they are very highly compressed AVI files that you probably downloaded from the internet.
The best thing is to "de-compress" them first. Just do a Google search for
"Convert DivX" and you will find lots of software available, some free, some you have to buy.
Once de-compressed you will find things render in a lot less time.
