I rendered 15 min of video to Divx. It took 3 hours on a P4 2 Ghz and the quality was terrible. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get better quality? What's the optimum settings?
first render a small bit of the video (say 5 or 10 seconds). use that clip to try out different settings and you can quickly make some comparisons. you might want to keep the CPU meter open so you can see how CPU usage is affected by different settings.