What's the best MPEg format for DVD

[mmponline]

See my new post on MPEG1 vs. MPG2 - Don't want to discuss a different topic in this thread.

[pennstat]

Pennstat

Thanks for your reply. I tried the AVI ones, and they do work faster.

However, when scrubbing the timeline I get a "out of memory" message after a whille, and then the scrubbing doesn't work.

I then went back to the MPEGs, as I normally work on shorter projects where rendering time is not such a big issue. Conserving harddrive space maybe more important (as my AVIs are 5 times larger).

Open up the Windows Task Manager and keep an eye on your resources during the rendering. You might want to activate the Virtual Memory column as well. That's a major component of Windows' inefficiency. Windows is bar none the worst operating system for memory management. Depending on what you're doing, MSP can be a resource hog as well. For the most part, "out of memory" errors mean that (A) you've run out of RAM or (B) you've run out of swap ... er ... pagefile space.

Last year I was getting so angry when MSP7 would take hours and hours to render a movie and would make my hard drive go wild. Turns out that as soon as it got to the rolling credits, RAM usage shot up to 950MB of my 1GB RAM (which has since been bumped up to 2 GB) and virtual memory shot up to about 600 MB. I also converted all scrolling credits to graphical files. So, now it only scrolls a sequence of JPEGs up the screen and no one's the wiser. (Don't laugh. It cut RAM usage by about 80%!!!) Let's me put graphics in the credits when necesary, too.

Now with 2 GB and a new credits design, my last project uses about 240 MB when rendering scenes with about five clips simultaneously. Much nicer than before. I'll withhold any sarcasm about doing all of this on an AMD. Wait ... that was a different thread ...