Excruciatingly Long Video Conversion Times

RobKnight · Post by **RobKnight** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:10 am

I've been creating a large project - about 2hrs long split over 2 DVDs.
Ive gone throught the share process and created all my chapters and menus. When I Create the output VS7 takes between 10 - 12 hours to convert the video and burn the DVD. I am currently burning Disc 2 and its been going for 12.5hours and is still not finished.

I have done this straight from the video studio project, without rendering. I now realise that this does not comply with the recommended proceedure in the top post.

My system is P4 3GHz + 1GB Ram.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:33 am

What's your source video file format? ie:Format, data rate, and field order? And what's your Disc creation format and compression? Please be sure they are the same, hope this helps.

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:57 pm

That seems really slow no matter what your format is, especially on a PC with your specs. My P4 is 2.8GHz and the render time tends to be about twice the finished running time to go from AVI to MPEG (that is, 2 hours to convert a 1-hour video). It probably helps that I have 1Gb of DRAM, but even so...

Doug G