Hi, I purchased VMS4 about a month ago and have been reading the posts here for a while.
My first project with VMS4 involved capturing some old Super8 home movie clips to be put on a DVD. I used VMS4 to capture all the clips as AVI files. I put them together and did some editing and added FX affects - all went well considering the learning curve with VMS4. When I was ready to render, the process took a little over 9 hours for 2 hours of video (no audio). I was pleased with final result.
I have now began a 2nd project with some 16mm film clips which I captured with my ATI AIW card as MPEG-2 files directly. After some minor editing, I decided to make a test DVD-RW to see the results using the MPEG-2 files as the source instead of AVI files. To my surprise the rendering time for 30min of MPEG-2 files (again, no audio) took a about 2 hours. This would equate to roughly the same time it took to render using AVI files.
I was under the impression that you could save rendering time by using MPEG-2 files instead of AVI because they were already compressed. Is this not true? Other than hard drive space, is there any advantage of using AVI files instead of MPEG-2?
PC Specs: ABit NF7-S, AMD Athlon 2500+, 512MB DDR, ATI AIW 9600Pro
DVD±RW DL: Sony DRU-710A
Sorry for the lengthy post,
Nickelman
My first project with VMS4 involved capturing some old Super8 home movie clips to be put on a DVD. I used VMS4 to capture all the clips as AVI files. I put them together and did some editing and added FX affects - all went well considering the learning curve with VMS4. When I was ready to render, the process took a little over 9 hours for 2 hours of video (no audio). I was pleased with final result.
I have now began a 2nd project with some 16mm film clips which I captured with my ATI AIW card as MPEG-2 files directly. After some minor editing, I decided to make a test DVD-RW to see the results using the MPEG-2 files as the source instead of AVI files. To my surprise the rendering time for 30min of MPEG-2 files (again, no audio) took a about 2 hours. This would equate to roughly the same time it took to render using AVI files.
I was under the impression that you could save rendering time by using MPEG-2 files instead of AVI because they were already compressed. Is this not true? Other than hard drive space, is there any advantage of using AVI files instead of MPEG-2?
PC Specs: ABit NF7-S, AMD Athlon 2500+, 512MB DDR, ATI AIW 9600Pro
DVD±RW DL: Sony DRU-710A
Sorry for the lengthy post,
Nickelman