Gruelingly long rendering times, convert?

Skydmark1 · Post by **Skydmark1** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:18 am

Ok, so I've now discovered that when I add an .avi file encoded with DivX to my timeline and try to burn a video that after 8 hours it's reached 13% rendered on the 1st video. HOLY LONG TIME BATMAN!!

My computing power isn't great on that computer (it's a laptop for one) so I wasn't expecting blazing speeds, but we're talking days here......that's just ridiculous.

Here's my question - Can I convert the files to something else and have the rendering time be MUCH smaller, OR not have to render at all. I'm guessing I'd want to convert to MPEG-2 but I believe I tried that a while ago and I got an error (codec problem?) If I convert a DivX .avi into an MPEG-2 is it still DivX encoded? I just installed the DivX codec today. I just want to make some DVDs to watch and not have to wait a week for it to burn.

Here's some specs on the laptop
1.4 Ghz Pentium M
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon 32MB Video
30 GB HD, with aprx. 20GB free
Windows XP

Just bought it not too long ago so it doesn't have much "junk" on it, mostly what came on it and MF5

~Jason

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:24 am

Skydmark1 · Post by **Skydmark1** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:19 pm

I have a desktop PC with much more computing power that I can use to convert.

~edit~ I was sick of waiting for a response so I went ahead and am now converting 3 video files into MPEG-II files with MP3 audio encoding. They are about half the size of the original files.....are they going to look like junk. I put the bit rate over 5000 because I will be burning in SP or GQ mode and don't need it any higher.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:16 pm

If I convert a DivX...

I knew it! Whenever anybody complains about render time, it's a good bet they are using DivX.

You might try using a 3rd-party program to convert the file to AVI/DV or to MPEG-2 before importing the video into Movie Factory. One program you can try is called SUPER (FREE !!!).

If I convert a DivX .avi into an MPEG-2 is it still DivX encoded?

No. DivX is different. It's MPEG-4, or based on MPEG-4... Or something like that... I'm not sure... Of course, you don't actually "convert" the file... The original DivX file stays intact and you get an additional MPEG-2 copy. (As you probably know, the AVI format is a "container" format, and it can contain almost any type of video compression.)