Slow Burn with Trial V S Plus

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:33 am

Thanks to everyone for all your help. The AdsTech device came with a
program called Muvee, which allows me to capture the Hi8 as an MPEG, and I was able to load that clip in UVS...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:45 am

Good -- though I am surprised you did not get CapWiz which to my mind is a (much) better program than Muvee which is more of a simple editing program.

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:06 am

Ken - I'm sorry to ask, but I seem to have the same problem as before,
except with a short (6 min) video. I put together a series of photo images in the Movie Wizard, adding a music track, then went into the full UVS screen and set up the titles and transition effex. I followed your previous advice, Create video file> DVD/VCD/SVCD/MPEG>NTSC DVD 16:9 (or should I have gone create video file > NTSC DVD (16:9, Dolby digital 5.1?). Anyway, the rendering process looks slow again. I estimate it would take almost 90 minutes for a 6 minute video. It has about 50 pictures, with a crossfade or fade-to-black transition between each. Any advice?

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:37 am

With your system, it should not take that long to render a 6 min project, especially a slideshow video.

Do you shutdown all, or any background applications while rendering? I've had an occasion where my anti-virus started scanning in the middle of a test render. Normally I use my Video Editing Profile, where everything not needed is disabled. This really slowed down the process.

Right-click on the bottom frame of your window, and select Task Manager, select the Processes tab. How many processes are running when you prepare to render?

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:30 pm

Vidoman - there are 72 processes listed in Task Mgr, but only the VS
and System Idle processes are drawing on the CPU. VS uses about 50% of the CPU and System Idle takes the remainder.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:21 am

72 processes?

I have 2 hardware profiles on my system, Normal which generally has 44 processes. Under this profile of course I have my anti-virus, spyware checkers, internet, basically everything.

I also have a special video editing profile, which only has about 25 processes running (I don't disable my Wacom tablet), however I have had it down to about 18 processes. This is so the PC can devote most of it's time and energy to editing/rendering my videos.

There's various means to cut down on the processes, one being creating a separate "video editing" hardware profile. You might want to review Steve's tutorial on Creating a Video Editing Profile.

You can also search for some utilities like EnditAll that allows you to stop un-necessary processes, freeing up more for your editing.

I think that having so many processes running while trying to render is a major factory in the slowness you're experiencing.

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:23 am

Vidoman - I went ahead and created the MPEG file. It took about 14 min for a 6.5 min video. After it got through the fancy title page it sped up.

I saw the link about creating a video editing profile. i need to learn a lot more about what i can screw up before i get the guts to make that move...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:26 am

14 min for a 6.5 minute video is probably about right.
Often these take between 1 and a half to 3 times the amount of time of the actual video. It will vary according to the amount of work involved.
A piece of unchanged video will render very quickly, but another with transitions, titles, altered soundtracks and multiple video tracks will take a lot longer.

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:13 am

thanks sjj1805.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:00 am

After it got through the fancy title page it sped up.

I am not sure what 'fancy page' you mean...

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:24 pm

Ken - I was referring to the (Story Theater) slide show opening sequence
with the six overlay (?) images that all come together. Once it got past that and into the photo images it sped up.

bricynt3 · Post by **bricynt3** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:40 am

Ken/Vidoman/sjj1805 - i have decided to give VS a try, so I'm going to purchase the program. can you guys recommend a reasonably priced capture card i can use to capture video? i have an older Hi-8 camera with s-video and composite outputs. i also have an inexpensive, entry-level mini-dvd camera with a composite only output.