Before I buy, why so slow?

Hunter wrote on 2/19/2003, 1:02 AM

Well after reading a few post here I have concerns about DVD-As rendering speed.
I read one post that said it took nine hours to complete a one hour project. This sounds like its having trouble encoding. What can I expect from DVD-A in the future?

Thanks
Hunter

Comments

jetdv wrote on 2/19/2003, 8:25 AM

I gave DVDA a DVD compliant MPEG file and DVD compliant AC3 file, spend an hour creating menus WITH motion menus. The DVD is nearly 2 hours long and took less than 2 hours to be created on a PIII 750 MHz computer. Most of the time was rendering the motion menus.

However, creating the originaly MPEG file took over 9 hours. If you pass DVDA compliant files, it doesn't have to encode. If it has to encode, then it will take however long that process takes in addition to the standard DVD creation process.

blund wrote on 2/19/2003, 9:18 AM

Correct, I too made a 1 hour video, captured from DV. It took 5 hours to convert it to an MPEG-2 file from the AVI file on a PIII 1.07 GHZ machine...but that is a lot faster than the 11 hours it was taking using ULead Media Studio Pro. If you want to reduce that to about 10-20 mins, get an Intel P4 3.06 GHz with Hyper Threading capabilities, Vegas 4 has been optimized to take advantage of this technology - and it does scream.