Rendering

who4ever · Post by **who4ever** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:15 am

I downloaded a video from the internet, which was a Windows Media Audio/Video file. I want to burn it to DVD. There seems to be no way around rendering it to an MPEG file, which means I have to stop my work and return to the computer in many hours and continue. Is this correct? Is there anyway around this?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:20 am

Try converting it first with SUPER a free piece of software for converting from one format to another

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:34 am

If you want to play it on a stand alone DVD player, yes, it needs to be converted to mpeg2 in order to be authored to DVD.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:03 am

Hi Dave

Rendering a video project to a compatible dvd file (Mpeg 2) takes a long time.

It is dependant on your pc’s resources and the amount of change / rendering from one source to another.

The time to render on my machine from Avi to Mpeg 2 is about 2.25 times the run time. That is a 60 minute video will take 135 minutes. And yes your pc should be left alone during render.
Stopping all other processes running in the background should help with the time taken, e-mails / anti virus etc

Try a short clip a few minutes long to test the time taken.

Trevor

who4ever · Post by **who4ever** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:11 am

Thank you all