Is rendering single or 2-pass?

Storyman wrote on 6/22/2005, 12:33 PM

Haven't purchased the program yet, which means burning a VCD isn't available. With the purchased program is it possible to burn a SVCD?

Is rendering a constant bit rate or can variable bit rate be used? What about when creating a DVD?

What kind of render times are needed for a half-hour VCD? How about a half-hour DVD?

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IanG wrote on 6/23/2005, 5:23 AM

I'm not sure about burning SVCD - I don't have VMS to hand.

The mpeg2 encoder is CBR.

Rendering times are highly dependent on what editing you've done - effects, transitions, changing transparency etc. will all slow things down. Since it's processor intensive it obviously depends on what processor you've got - I rarely get better than realtime with my 3.2GHz P4.

Ian G.

ADinelt wrote on 6/23/2005, 11:59 AM

I have a P4 2.4 GHz computer with 512 MByte RAM, separate 120 GByte hard drive for video work and it takes approximately 3 times the length of the video to render (e.g. a 15 minute clip can take 45 minutes to render). As Ian mentioned, transitions, effects, etc. will all affect the render time (so does playing FreeCell or sufing the web).

Al

Storyman wrote on 6/26/2005, 8:22 AM

Thanks guys.

ADineIt, our systems are similiar and from previous programs have found the render time about the same as yours. One thing that does help is having a hard drive that is dedicated to rendering--it is the same drive that is dedicated as a scratch disk as recommended by Photoshop. It breaks down as 1 drive for applications, 1 drive for media storage, and 1 drive used for rendering.