What is the average time to burn a 45min DVD using VS9?

dshenoy · Post by **dshenoy** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:32 pm

I have a Pentium 4 machine that at 2GHz with 1GB of RAM and it looks as if it will take 5hrs to burn a DVD. Is this normal? What can i do to tune my system to work a little faster?

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:52 am

Five hours to burn a DVD is completely out of whack and indicates that you are "Converting Videos" during the burn. Don't do this. Follow the procedure that is detailed in the top sticky post.
John

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:55 am

That sort of depends on how you are doing it. To explain: there are three situations I can think of that could correspond to what you are doing.

1) You have already created a DVD-compliant mpeg2 video file, and are burning this to DVD. As there is little or no encoding to do, the process should be pretty quick - about half an hour?

2) You have created an avi file from your project, and wish to burn that to DVD (This is what I do - I prefer to work in avi while editing). The program needs to transcode the avi to mpeg2, then burn. Expect the total duration to be about 3 times the length of the video.

3) You are burning direct from a project - ie a vsp file. This is generally not recommended - it gives the computer so much to do, and many posters to this forum have found that the process just fails. The computer has to collate all the information from many scattered clips - according to the directions in the vsp file - then transcode it, then burn. If this process works, it will take a really long time.

dshenoy · Post by **dshenoy** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:05 pm

Many thanks for all your help.

I cannot see the option to prevent converting option? What do you mean by top sticky post?

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:18 pm

Click this link: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 9c5166aab6
John