5 hours wasted on mpeg2 render- does this happen to anyone else?

musman wrote on 10/13/2004, 2:05 AM
Just set a 2 pass mpeg render to do it's thing over night. Checked back in the morning and the 9 min project took over 5 hours to render at best quality under Main Concept Mpeg2- DVD Architect NTSC video stream. Once rendered I got a ".msv" and a ".m2v.sfl". This is not the first time this has happened, and I didn't use the 2 pass option until that render.
Am I doing something terribly obviously wrong, or is there a bug? Thanks for any help!

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farss wrote on 10/13/2004, 2:53 AM
Sounds like you got what you asked for. Why do you think there's a problem? The length isn't all that matters, it's the breadth of the project as well.
Bear in mind 2 pass means twice as long as well.

Bob.
musman wrote on 10/13/2004, 3:10 AM
It's not the time, it's the final format that's the problem. I don't know what .m2v is and neither dvda nor vegas will open it.
What did I do?
rs170a wrote on 10/13/2004, 4:24 AM
What did I do?

I suspect what happened is that, in an attempt to "customize" the settings, you went to the "System" tab and selected "Save as separate elementary streams". This is where the .m2v file came from. Deselect it and try again.

Mike
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/13/2004, 6:25 AM
Or you can use TMPGenc to combine the audio & video together into a mpeg-2 file. If you've never used the program before (or you've reformatted since last use) you can work with the trial demo for 15 days i think.
SonyEPM wrote on 10/13/2004, 7:11 AM
If all you changed within the "Main Concept Mpeg2- DVD Architect NTSC video stream" render settings was 2-pass, DVDA should be able to open the file.
farss wrote on 10/13/2004, 7:14 AM
.m2v is an elemental stream, sounds like you've used the wrong template. However I think DVDA 2 will accept m2v files. If not or you only have DVDA 1 then as stated above you can remux them using TMPGEnc.

Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/13/2004, 8:12 AM
I jsut remembered: if you rename it to .mpg it should open then w/o audio.

But it should open in DVD (like everyone else said) anyway.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/13/2004, 11:42 AM
You definitely used the wrong template. ALWAYS use the DVD Architect templates when rendering for use in DVDA. NEVER use the default template (the results are horrible). Unless you really know what you are doing, the ONLY thing to change when you click on the Custom button (just after selecting one of the DVD Architect templates), is the average bitrate (so your video will fit on one DVD).

Suggestion to Sony:

PLEASE remember the last MPEG-2 template used between sessions. It is way too easy to forget to pick the correct template each time. The default is horrible because it uses an average quality setting for the predictive part of the algorithm.
musman wrote on 10/13/2004, 6:19 PM
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their help. rs170a, you were right in that the problem was in the system tab. But, I've never opened that tab. It seems like Vegas defaulted to that setting from the start. Then again, I didn't install this version on the computer, so mabye the guy who did played with things.
Anyway, the render took only 2 hours and 10 minutes this time. Not quick, but much better.
Thanks again for the help!