I am creating DVD discs with VideoStudio V8.0.
My input is a .wmv file that is about 500mb and the video is about 1 hour long.
The burn time is over 12 hours on a Pentium 4, 3.6ghz processor.
This seems extremely long. Am I doing something wrong? Can it be done faster? or is this about right?
I have many home movies on VHS that I would llike to burn to disc and use Microsoft Movie Maker as the capture/edit tool.
Any suggestions?
John
Extremely long DVD burn times - problem? or normal.
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B-Riebe
I personally have given up on using .WMV in my projects and burning from them. The transcoding to MPEG is HORRIBLY slow with WMVs!!! HORRIBLE! Every .WMV I've used has taken FOREVER to MPEG encode. I used UVS's Batch Convert tool to convert all my .WMV files to MPEG-2 for better use in future UVS projects/movies. Start it and go to bed....if you're lucky it will be done in the mornning. 
Now I only catpture to MPEG, save to MPEG, and work with MPEGs. I no longer use Windows Movie Maker and I only use the killer little Windows Photo Story 3 to make sweet slideshow videos to share only within the PC world...love that little software!
Now I only catpture to MPEG, save to MPEG, and work with MPEGs. I no longer use Windows Movie Maker and I only use the killer little Windows Photo Story 3 to make sweet slideshow videos to share only within the PC world...love that little software!
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THoff
The amount of work that needs to be done to convert a WMV file to something suitable for burning to a VCD/SVCD/DVD depends quite a bit on the settings that were used to create the WMV.
If the video needs to be resized to fit the selected disk template, it will add greatly to the transcoding time. Another factor is the profile that the WMV was created for -- the Complex profile offers better quality, but it requires considerably more computing resources to decode, and this too will add to the pain during transcoding.
The WMV format doesn't lend itself very well to editing, you are better off using uncompressed AVI, DV, or even MPEG2, and converting to WMV format only when you want to create a highly compressed video for streaming or otherwise sharing it with other PC users.
If the video needs to be resized to fit the selected disk template, it will add greatly to the transcoding time. Another factor is the profile that the WMV was created for -- the Complex profile offers better quality, but it requires considerably more computing resources to decode, and this too will add to the pain during transcoding.
The WMV format doesn't lend itself very well to editing, you are better off using uncompressed AVI, DV, or even MPEG2, and converting to WMV format only when you want to create a highly compressed video for streaming or otherwise sharing it with other PC users.