How Long Should It Take?

Gary-STFC · Post by **Gary-STFC** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:06 pm

I'm currently compiling a DVD of a football/soccer match I attended for which I am having problems burning onto a DVD. So, I've decided to make the DVD folders so I can burn to DVD at a later point.

It's currently 1h 40m in and is only on 4% of the overall completion. The file itself is 5.37GB being scaled down to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD using the 'Fit To Disc' tool.

I'm using VS9 (which I'm very unimpressed with so far as it's giving me problems galore) with a 3.2GhZ AMD Athlon processor and 1GhZ RAM. Any advice/feedback would be much appreciated.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:09 pm

How long is the video footage

What are the source videos -- dv .avi, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, etc...

What types of edits did you apply to them -- simple cuts, crossfades/transitions, overlays, etc...

Gary-STFC · Post by **Gary-STFC** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:18 pm

Apologies for missing that out of the original post, but in answer:

Video footage is sliightly over 1h 40

Source videos are mpeg-1 files

Edits applied include title frames, four small overlays, a small fade to black and back out to film transistion

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:25 pm

your source videos are mpeg-1

how did you capture them -- what resolution and bitrate, and what device was the source playing from, and what device did you use to capture them (I'm concerned the quality might not be the best if you are starting off with mpeg-1 videos).

Gary-STFC · Post by **Gary-STFC** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:31 pm

They may not be MPEG-1 (sorry).

Imported the original footage direct from a DVD so they may be MPEG-2

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:59 pm

Is your camcorder a dvd camcorder, or did you feed the video into a dvd recorder?

It does seem long to be only 4% into the process (considering your computer specs). Is there anything else currently running on your machine (like a system virus scan)?

Gary-STFC · Post by **Gary-STFC** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:12 pm

I got the DVD passed onto me from someone else, so I do not know the spec of the camcorder I'm afraid.

Nothing else is running, but given the other problems I'm having with VS9, I'm beginning to think I've got a bad copy of the software. (Can't capture (can in VS8 trial and Sony supplied capture s/w), keeps crashing with application errors when compiling movies and burning discs, taking forever to compile onto a disc/folder/image). Needless to say, I'm not impressed so far

Gary-STFC · Post by **Gary-STFC** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:57 pm

Finished after 3h 25m. As soon as it finishes the title conversion, it was very rapid to conclude. The title conversion took 3h 12m - what does this involve?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:08 pm

That's re-encoding to fit your project onto a 4.7gb dvd disc.

I guess that 4% number wasn't part of the total time it was going to take, but maybe part of the total steps involved

3 hours 25m isn't that bad considering your processor...

Gary-STFC · Post by **Gary-STFC** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:25 pm

Thanks for all your help George, much appreciated.