PS3 long rendering time 16+ hours only 28% -quicktime movie?

cahall · Post by **cahall** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:45 am

All,

Has anyone experienced rediculously long rendering times when trying to burn slideshows with quicktime movies included in them?. I have used an apple mac to do a picture show, it produced a quicktime movie of 353 MB which I downloaded to my PC. PS3 says it should be 1.5GB after its burnt. I started it at 6am this morning and now at 10pm it has:

Total process - converting Slide Shows 3%
Detailed process - building slide show 28% (it is increasing 1% aprox every 40 mins)

Is this normal, my machine has 512MB RAM 2.8GHz intel processor and 500GB HD wiith 400GB Spare!. Nothing else is running on it, PS3 is taking aprox 50% of processor time, lots of spare swap space and memory.

At this rate it will take 3 days+ to burn this DVD

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:06 am

Have you ever heard of a DVD standard? Did you bother to find out if your QuickTime movie is DVD compliant? Obviously not. Standard compression for DVD is MPEG not MOV. The program has to convert your MOV sequences to MPEG and may not have the neccessary encoders to it with.

But, don't frett, you can always blame the software for it.

Masami · Post by **Masami** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:05 pm

While Heinz is (quite rudely) correct, it shouldn't be taking it this long to convert the file. How long is it? Typically a rendering takes between 1-4 times the actual length of the movie (generally between 2 and 3). Now, Pictureshow is not the best at rendering so it might take a little bit longer, but this amount of time is a little bit heavy.

Here are a couple things you can update to try to increase your render speed.

DirectX (microsoft.com)
Quicktime (apple.com)
Your video card drivers

You can also try "create disc image file" instead of "record to disc" which can speed up the process since it frees up virtual memory since it doesn't need to worry about burning.

Also, if you are on Windows XP, you can switch to diagnostic mode through the system configuration utility (Start -> Run: MSCONFIG) which can speed things up a bit.

Masami · Post by **Masami** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:06 pm

Actually, just found out, that due to the compression format on some quicktime files, it can take an extremely long time to uncompress them, up to a minute per frame (that's half an hour per second!!!!)

I'd still try those tricks to speed up the process, but if it's at all possible avoid that format in the future.