Does this sound correct to any users?

david-ruby wrote on 9/27/2003, 4:05 PM
I have a 2.5 pent 4 machine with 1 gig of ram and 7200 harddrives. Dual moniter setup as well.
I am running dvd architect and am rendering an hour and a half video to be burned to a dvd-r.
It has to render the audio and video (prepare and burn selection) before burning.
It is claiming 3 hours to do this. Does this sound right? 1 1/2 hours equals 3 hours on a pioneer ao3 (1x) drive?
Just curious to see if it isn't something else.
Thanx everyone.
David

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AZEdit wrote on 9/27/2003, 4:14 PM
What is the format of video you are using? Is it an AVI or MPG2? If it is an AVI- that sounds close- it has to render the files to MPG 2 for DVD, typically at a 1.5 to 1 rate.
zcus wrote on 9/27/2003, 4:19 PM
That sounds about right - I'm am running dual athlon MP2000+ and it is very close to real time when rendering from Vegas timeline to .mv2 - I think DVDA takes longer to render Ive read in the forms.
kameronj wrote on 9/27/2003, 4:41 PM
You are rendering a 90 minute movie to burn on a DVD with DVDA and want to know is 3 hours sounding right?

DUDE...that is pretty flippin good!!

That is to say, I'm not sure why you wouldn't have rendered the file to the "proper" format with Vegas first (as an MPEG-2 file...and the audio as AC3). But....having DVDA do the rerendering and do it in 3 hours (by my math) is just about 1/2 real time.

I'm doing a re-render today (started this morning) of 4 files on a DVD each one is about 45 minutes...so a total of 3 hours of video....and it has to rerender each file so it can fit on the DVD (using the optimize feature) and the final render will take about 7+ plus hours.

Then, of course, once the prepare is done - it will take about another half hour to burn the disc.

So doing a 3 hour render isn't bad.

But...as a suggestion - I would highly suggest letting Vegas do the render and just let DVDA do the burnign. If your files are in the MPEG-2 format (and the audio is AC3), it is a breeze to prepare and burn.

I'm archiving Stargate episodes that we digitized from VHS (took out the commercials and stuff...added some funny comments, pictures, overlays, etc...we just LOVE Stargate) and then put them on a DVD for our library.

I can fit three episodes on the disc without having to re-render them...and, if I wanted to do it before hand, I could render the files in Vegas at a lower bitrate prior to getting to DVDA so I don't have to render again (would probably take a good 10 hours off the process).

but I do most of the rendering at night or when I'm out running the streets during the day so it doesn't affect my PC usage.

But...yeah...3 hours sound more than right.

Hope that helps.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/27/2003, 5:37 PM
I’ve got a P4 1.7Ghz with 512MB RAM and it takes 2x to 2.5x to encode an MPEG2 file in Vegas 4. So a 90 minute project would take between 3 to 3.5 hours just to encode. Add to that whatever it takes to burn to DVD. So 3 hours total is not bad at all.

~jr
BillyBoy wrote on 9/27/2003, 10:25 PM
David, remember buring a DVD is a multiple step process.

1. the prep (making a MPEG-2 compliant file) commonly called rendering
2. making the image files a DVD needs (under make DVD in DVD-A)
3. the actual burning of the disc.

Your times aren't bad.
david-ruby wrote on 9/28/2003, 9:46 PM
Thanx guys for the great help.
I feel a whole lot better. ; )
DR
musicvid10 wrote on 9/28/2003, 11:28 PM
I just got Verisign's new "lost surfer" thing when I clicked David's URL.

1) That is really presumptuous of Verisign. I think I should have a search engine choice like at any other time.
2) If it causes half the problems the media says it does, it should be taken down.
3) David, did you link your URL correctly or is it just not up yet?

4) When I clicked on the closest match Verisign provided, I got animated gif's of a woman giving anal and oral sex simultaneously. This is not exactly what I had in mind. I think Verisign has left itself open to a raft of issues..............................