period of conversion

[yotta]

Hi
i would like to know if that normal that the conversion of a video (when we are in sharing process) took about five hours ?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Yotta

It would be nice to know a little about what you are converting from, and to what?

The amount of editing within the timeline would also affect times.

The duration of the video file/project would also be very useful.
If its 5 hours long then the conversion of 5 hours would be very good?
If its 5 minutes then 5 hours would be unacceptable.

More information is required please……………….

[yotta]

i am converting a movie that i was editing (made some effect like blur), and the original was and avi and converting it to AVI to ,and the duration of the movie is about 50 minutes.
i don't know if that all that you want to know ?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Yotta
Avi is just a container, it can hold a variety of video types.

Right click the original Avi, select properties
What are they?

Do the same for the new converted video file.

I assume you used Share Create Video File — what option did you select?

What are you intending to do with or make using the Avi, internet upload, making a DVD???

[yotta]

yes,i would like to create a DVD that i will play it on television.
i chose on Option : DIvX 6.8.5 Codec (2 Logical CPUs). and i let the other option as default.
other question: is that option can be played well on television ?

[Ken Berry]

If, as seems likely, your original video was DivX, which is highly compressed mpeg-4 but uses the .avi extension, then you do your editing in that format. But then you are faced with a choice. If you want to produce a video DVD in the true sense of that term, then you have to convert the DivX to DVD-compatible mpeg-2. To do that, you would select Share > Create Video File > DVD (since the project is less than one hour). Then when you produce that new mpeg-2, you open a burning engine and burn a video DVD.

However, because your video is DivX, you also have the option of editing and producing a new DivX version of the edited project: Share > Create Video File > Same As First Clip. Then you close Video Studio and totally forget about. Instead, you use any other burning program, such as Nero or Roxio, and simply burn the new DivX file to a CD or DVD as a *data* file. Just about every stand-alone DVD player these days is rated to play DivX discs -- look at the stickers along the top of your player and you should see the DivX logo... You just put your data disc in the player and it should recognise that there is a DivX files on it and play it. But though it is a video file, it is not a video DVD -- just a data DVD...

[yotta]

now i am converting the file in time line after made a blur effects following the tutorial in this topic http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?p=194832#194832.
in conversion i shoes DivX compression ,but after 8 hours and the conversion still in 90% and not finished and the size of the file is now at 1,2 Go and still rise. is that normal ?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Yotta

I am a little confused..........

Can you confirm the properties of your original video file.

From the timeline--Right click a video clip and select properties, What are they?

[yotta]

thats the original file properties

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Yotta

Div X is a highly compressed format giving good quality video.
As Ken mentioned you have several options.

1/
Render your files to Div X, saving them as data to a disc will allow you to play on a DVD player. Providing the player supports Div X.
You are best to render the video to the same properties as the original, as the Same as First Clip option may not be available you would use Make Movie Templates Manager to create a suitable template.
Having said that your properties look non-standard, having viewed the Div X options and cannot find any to match your properties. Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place.

2 /
Render the project Div X files – Share Create Video File - DVD 4x3, this will create a Mpeg 2 file suitable for burning a DVD

3 / Batch Convert / Render the original video files to DV-Avi (AVI Type 1) using the resultant files to edit, then creating an mpeg as in 2 above.

You may be best to test a small clip to compare not only the render times but quality of the final Mpeg2 file.

Yotta, when you created the Div X files that took so long, what properties did they have?

[yotta]

Hi, in plus i got an other problem, when i tried to read the resultant video on a DivX player it coudnt read it .
i don't why that ?
i am now traveling and as soon as i will be back i will send u the property of the resultant file.
thank you