How long is it supposed to take

eyegeek wrote on 1/5/2005, 6:24 PM

I am just wondering how long it takes you to render your clips. It seems to take me 4 to 5 hours just to render a 50 minute tape. Is this normal? I just bought a 40 gig hard drive on top of my 40 gig I already have. I have a Dell demension, 2 years old. I also clean my disc drive each time before hand, and some times I even have to defragment my computer.
I just wanted to know if this is normal, and if so what can I do to speed this process up. I have a lot of videos I am transferring to my new sony mini Dv.
By the way, I haven't even learned how to do any fancy stuff, so the tape is un-edited.

I appreciate all your response.
angie

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BillyBoy wrote on 1/5/2005, 7:51 PM

Making a DVD is a multi step process. First you need compliant files. This you would normally do in Vegas rendering using one of the DVD templates. The times given following does NOT take this step into consideration.

The above primary step only takes you so far. You end up with a file or filesthat can be turned INTO a DVD. This is generally the longest time consuming step. How long it takes to render depends on your CPU's speed, the complexity of your project, how many filters you use, which one, if you change frame size, etc..

Next comes the DVD Authoring part, which can be a little confusing at first. Normally you want some kind of Menu System. Once you finish designing that DVD-A or any other DVD Authoring program needs to make image files. They're not "picture" files, rather files in a format a DVD player can read.

If nothing needs to be recompressed and you have a fairly fast CPU this final processing part can take between 40-70 minutes, longer if you have slower PC or files need to be recompressed. DVD-A will tell what it is planning on doing and what's necessary if you look under optimize.

Once that's all done the final step is the actual "burning" of the data to the blank disc in a DVD friendly format. Again, how long depends on the speed of your DVD burner and to a lessor extent on your CPU speed. Normally it should be no more than the length of time the DVD plays, usually less. So while 4-5 hours is a little slow, not out of the ballpark.

For a rough yardstick, on my 3.2, P4 a full DVD (about 3.7 GB) takes about 50-70 minutes to complete the final processing and another 25 minutes or so for the actual burning.