Approx how long to render/burn a 1 hour movie?

[merk]

Right now its doing whatever its doing to create a 1 hour disc. Its been running for about an hour and 20 minutes and its at 57% of converting video title, but only 4% overall total progress.

I hope this doesnt mean its going to take over 30 hours for it to create this disc. My system is a P4 2.6ghz with 1gig of ram. I didnt have anything else running while this was going on. And cpu usage is floating between 70 and 80 percent.

So what approximate time frame should i expect for creating a 1 hour movie? I only have 2 transitions in it, and only 3 chapters on the menu.

[heinz-oz]

That's as easy to answer as "How long is a string?"

What is the source material? What is the target?

[merk]

a combination of an uncompressed avi file and a wmv file. Target is a video dvd

Would the souce materiel even matter? I can see how the target would depending on how it needs to be compressed.

[Dean66]

a combination of an uncompressed avi file and a wmv file. Target is a video dvd

Would the souce materiel even matter? I can see how the target would depending on how it needs to be compressed.

Do yourself a favor and capture in MPEG if you can. You can just drop the files right into to MovieFactory and it will create the DVD folders and burn in roughly 15 minutes for 70 minutes worth of footage. NO RENDERING REQUIRED. If you need to edit out commercials or add transitions, Doug from above mentioned Womble Video Wizard. I use MPEG2VCR which is Womble's earlier version. It works great and it's fast. The only thing it doesn't have is a full resolution image, but that doesn't affect the output at all. Once your done with the editing, you resave the new MPEG and you're all set.

I hate having to wait for files to be rendered. That's the entire reason why I bought MovieFactory 4 in the first place. I used Pinnacle studio in the past, and although it did the job quite nicely, the 2 - 3 hours worth of rendering just drove me nuts.

[merk]

ahh cool. Well the project is already done so no point in my re-capturing the video. But next time if i have to capture video i'll let ulead capture it since i assume it will save it as mpg.

[sjj1805]

its at 57% of converting video title, but only 4% overall total progress.

You cannot rely on these figures. These products go through various stages. It is 57% complete of this stage. This is a slow stage., if the next stage is a quicker stage you may see the 4% suddenly shoot up to a very high figure.

[JayS]

I just upgraded to MF4, and did a project which included slideshows, chapters, motion chapter clips, etc. I then built a DVD folder from which I'll be making multiple copies. Everything combined, including the WAV files attached to the slideshow is around 2.6 Gig and a little over an hour. At 4x with a Sony burner, it is taking about 28 minutes to produce one DVD. That seems long...

Jay S.

[tonyl33]

When you do video capture or just plain DVD ripping, you need to have a lot of unfragmented free space. If your video file is fragmented, your rendering time will extend very much & may even fail especially during burning. Ever heard of people complain about burning 80% & then failed or the system hanged. Window couldn't piece together the fragmented video file before the timeout.
I reserved a 40Gb partition on my 120Gb HDD for video capture. This partition is always empty. Before starting, I will do a quick format before doing the capture & I only capture in MPEG2 & not AVI. No problem in rendering & burning & very fast.

[fish-mtn]

Do yourself a favor and capture in MPEG if you can. You can just drop the files right into to MovieFactory and it will create the DVD folders and burn in roughly 15 minutes for 70 minutes worth of footage. NO RENDERING REQUIRED.

forgive me for prying, but i'd like to know exactly what settings you have checked and unchecked to accomplish that. using MF4 to burn mpg to dvd and not using program for anything else, and it takes hours for burning one 71 minute/4.33g mpg, its 4:3, captured using digital rapids stream.