So many time to burn a project !!!!

[u_no_fr]

Hi all,

I did a DVD project and i would like to burn it on my HD
But it takes 4:30 hours to do it
It is incredible !!!!!
P IV @ 3GHz with 1Mo of RAM
What is tje pb ???

Thks 4 replies

[thecoalman]

Video is very CPU intensive, if your video is not DVD compliant it has to be reencoded to a DVD compliant format. On average a single hour of video requires about 1 hour of encoding time on a system like yours. It also has to create and convert the menus and any other media that you have included in the project. How long this additional conversion takes depends on what you have added. Four hours though seems to be quite a long time if it's just a basic menu and video conversion.

Just for example as I stated above a sytem like yours requires on average about 1 hour to do a straight conversion from DV-AVI to MPEG2. This conversion time can be greatly increased if there's a lot of transitions, filters or you have made changes such as adjusting the color, contrast or brightness. (I'm using this an example, I don't know if these features are available in DVDWS as I have never looked, I only use it for authoring) Also remeber this is just the time required to convert the video, it doesn't include the creation of the menus, mutiplexing time etc....


If you want to test it to see if it is excessive try making a disc with a single first play video with no menu. It should take approximatley the amount of time the video plays for plus the burn time.

Also you can view the progression bar to view what steps are taking so long.

[Devil]

Also, if you are using two-pass encoding, it takes twice as long and VBR takes longer than CBR. For the fastest encoding of a DV project with no loss of visual quality on a TV, I suggest you choose CBR 6000 kbit/s, provided your project is under about 90 minutes, depending on many other factors (audio format, menus etc.). You should be able to do that in roughly real time or slightly more.