"convert title" takes way looooooong

amilhanish · Post by **amilhanish** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:57 am

I've downloaded the trial version of Video Studio. I took a 2 hour mpg and created a movie with chapters. When I go to "create disk" for a normal DVD using the built-in menu template, the conversion starts, but it move very slowly when it starts doing a "Convert title...".

I mean it's taking like hours and still says convert title and only like 60% done.

Any ideas what is wrong with this? All my settings are normal like 4.7G DVD, DVD-Video format. I have a dual core AMD 64bit 4400+ with 2G RAM. Hard disk is 300G. System is very fast.

At this rate, it will take days to convert the entire video is it's taking this long just to convert "title"...whatever that is.

Amil

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:04 am

You are right, that is long. What flavour of mpeg are you converting? Did you check the "Do not convert compliant files" ?

amilhanish · Post by **amilhanish** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:50 pm

Yes, I had that option selected. Maybe it's because the MPEG2 file is like 5.7G and I'm burning to a 4.7G DVD...maybe it has to reconvert or something.

It's just baffling that it says it's doing "Converting video of the title [001/001] and this step just take soooooo loooooog. Why is this? It's like it's not even gotten to the main video yet.

Amil

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:51 pm

If it is converting for that long, I guess it is converting the lot. This would indicate to me that, as far as VS is concerned, your source is not compliant. The fact that it is too big for a SL DVD does not cause that behaviour. You would simply be told that there is not enough room on your selected media.

Since we do know "silch" about the source file properties, there is no way someone could be more specific.

amilhanish · Post by **amilhanish** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:38 am

Update: If I let it run to completion, after the "converting title" phase, it only takes another 50% of the initial phase. My guess is that during the converting title phase, it's doing more than just a "title"...whatever that is. Total duration for a 2 hour MPEG2 DVD 4.7G is about 3.5 hours.

The good news...the quality of this one-pass is better than Nero, Pinnacle, or Adobe Elements (Elements was best up to this point). I think I have finally found a conversion tool that will take my two hour 8mm camcorder tapes and provide quality output.

FYI...I'm capturing the tape to MPEG2 on another computer using a Dazzle 150 capture device, which is better than my Hauppauge card.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:13 am

What ever works for you. Glad you got it going and are happy with the results.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:24 am

You haven't filled in your system information, but in point of fact, 3.5 hours to produce a 2 hour DVD is not all that bad. If you click on my System button below, then that computer takes anywhere between 1 to 1.5 times real time to produce a DVD i.e. for a 2 hour DVD, it may take between 2 to 3 hours. The time varies according to the complexity of the menu I have chosen etc.

Phil S · Post by **Phil S** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:02 pm

Yes, I agree with Ken. My last 1.5 hour video took 2.5 hours. Seems about right to me.

Although you should create your compliant MPEG 2 video first before trying to set up menus and burn, but whatever works for you.

geriman · Post by **geriman** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:16 pm

I can beat that.

I tried to splice togerther short sections from several avi files (and one mpg file) into a 1 hour video, and burn to DVD - and 7 1/2 hours later it was still working on the menu. Each file started out at around 1 hour, but I only wanted short sections.

That's using the demo version of studio 10, with a 1056 RAM Celerion D PC.

Never come across anything like it. Can't use something as slow as that, it's crazy. Windows Movie Maker is much quicker. Shame it's so basic.

Anyone suggest a quicker method?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:19 pm

Sounds as though you were trying to burn with something in the timeline. That is not in accordance with the Recommended Procedure. Try following the procedure and see if you have better luck.

geriman · Post by **geriman** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:30 pm

Wow, that was quick!

I think I did it right - created the project, exited, started again, clicked the "tools" tab, chose the Create DVD option (or something like that), loaded up the project using the "add project" option (opens a darn site faster that way), created the menu, selected the "burn" button, went to sleep, next day....7+ hours gone, top bar on 11% bottom bar on 76%.

Gave up.

Shame, the DVD it made from ONE mpg file I wanted intact is fine! Dunno how long it took , I always burn overnight.
I was hoping to replace my crappy pinnacle instant software, useless for anything that's not from a camcorder, and I may still do so, but I'd love to find a faster way.

Hang on - so I should have created a video and saved it to the hard drive BEFORE burning, then burnt THAT - is that right?
And presumably you don't lose quality of video?

Basically it's guitar instruction videos downloaded form the web, and I'm taking out all the bits I don't want, then putting together the bits I DO want...sad, eh?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:42 pm

I tried to splice togerther short sections from several avi files (and one mpg file) into a 1 hour video

I think I did it right - created the project, exited, started again, clicked the "tools" tab, chose the Create DVD option (or something like that), loaded up the project using the "add project" option (opens a darn site faster that way), created the menu, selected the "burn" button, went to sleep, next day....7+ hours gone, top bar on 11% bottom bar on 76%.

Please clarify. Did you:
A. Created the project by combining your avi's and mpeg (and any editing), closed the project, started again and chose Create Disc (your method).

or

B. Created the project by combining your avi's and mpeg (and any editing), created an mpeg file of the project by going to Share>Create Video File, closed the project, started again and chose Create Disc and inserted that newly created video file (Recommended Procedure).

geriman · Post by **geriman** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:47 pm

I confess - I did the first one. It worked before using 3 avi files (overnight) so I got greedy and tried with 7 - and it took so long.

I only discovered his forum half an hour ago, but I'll pay attention!

Thanks for the help, I'll try again.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:58 pm

Yes, try the Recommended Procedure and let us know how you do.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:36 am

One more thing that seems to have slipped everyones attention, you downloaded these files from the web right? What format were they? I know you stated AVI, doesn't mean anything I'm afraid. It's mostlikely one of these heavily compressed formats like Xvid, DiVX or mpeg4.

Be glad it works at all and the results are watchable. Each of these formats are problematic for editing to start with but mixing them as well