7 hrs 17 minutes and only 75% done with Rendering. Is this normal?

AndStill wrote on 10/23/2004, 7:49 AM
I am creating a dvd of an older boxing match that I have taped using my sony dv camcorder. I created the dvd with two menus, the home menu and then a scene sclection page with about 8 chapters in the dvd where you can access different parts of the fight. Anyway, so far it has taken over 7 hrs to render and is at 75% and is still not finished. Does it usually take this long to render? I also have Roxio easy cd and dvd creator but don't like it because you can't fit more than 60 min of video on this and bought sony vegas studio & Dvd to solve this issue but with roxio, as soon as you were done creating the dvd how you wanted it, all you had to do was just hit burn and it would be done, it didn't have to render or prepare. Please get back to me and let me know what is going on, thank you!

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johnmeyer wrote on 10/24/2004, 12:56 PM
Encoding video to MPEG in DVDA should not take much longer than real-time on a 2.8 GHz Pentium (which is what I have). Thus, if your original video is one hour long, it should take about 90 minutes, at most, to do the encoding. If your computer is only 1.4 GHz, then it will take twice as long.

However, I have found a problem with the AC-3 encoding, which I am exploring and am going to submit to Sony shortly, if it turns out to be correct. Rendering times for the audio portion of the encode can skyrocket if the audio is 44 kHz instead of 48 kHz.

Also, what video format are you putting into DVD Architect? The times I quoted above are for DV AVI files. Other formats can take longer.
vitalforces wrote on 10/25/2004, 3:15 PM
I have found that DVDA2 renders go a LOT smoother if I:

1. Convert all DV-avi and other audio to 48kHz (Sound Forge) before saving as AC-3; and

2. Convert all DV-avi files to MPEG-2 video streams before loading them into DVDA2 (DVDA2 auto-loads the AC-3 file too, so long as it is in the same folder and has the identical filename as the MPEG file).

When I do this, my render is about half the time as the real-time footage.