More issues on rendering

aseltzer144 wrote on 4/8/2004, 8:33 AM

I have developed a number of clips which I am importing into MS in Quicktime format. As a test, I imported one .mov clip, put it in a loop region, and rendered using the loop region only. The video clip is a 5mb clip running 22 seconds. Regardless of the target format, the rendering time seems excessively lengthy - for example, 25+ minutes to go to mpeg2. In addition, iMS is creating a file of over 17mb for this 5mb clip.

I am using an AMD Athlon 2400+ with 512 MB RAM.

Is this normal behavior or is MS weak as a rendering engine.? Am I misunderstanding something?

Thanks,

- Arthur

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 4/8/2004, 9:09 AM

One thing you're not taking into account is going from one file type to another and one format to another. The quicktime MOV files you are using are probably much more compressed than the MPEG2 files that you are producing. Depending on the bitrates that are used the file sizes can vary all over the lot.

Also, rendering from one highly compressed format (MOV) to another higly compressed format (MPEG) will take a lot of time.