super slow rendering ??

ronchast wrote on 9/17/2003, 10:41 PM
DVD architect wants 45 hours to render a 3 hour DVD ? we tried it - two days later it locked up. Recompresssed and now it wantsd 22 hours to "prepare " the files . We use Premiere and exported the file as AVI , pulled out the audio track, cleaned it up in cool edit pro and put it back as WAV file. Plays great and sound fine. The first render took 45 hours and then after it said it was finished - the program hung up. Windows XP Pro was fine but DVD architect was locked . Called Tech support - said to download all new updates ( directx 9, DVD arch 1.0.C - etc, we did and deleted old files. Tried to burn again and now it wants 22 hours ? We have 8 video machines and this one uses an Intel 850 GB motherboard, 4 seagate SCSI 78gig drives, 1 gig ram, 4 meg front end bus, XP pro. We have rendered similar projects in about an hour on this machine - whats up ? We just purchased this program at the WEVA conference along with Vegas ( have not tried Vegas yet) :

Thanks for any help - we cannot use this and stay in business very long.

RC

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EdK wrote on 9/17/2003, 11:54 PM
Not sure but I've heard of problems using Premiere files in DVD Architect. I'm sure others can answer that better than I.

3 hours is quite long to put on one DVD and expect good quality.

I would try capturing the footage into Vegas and encode to Mpeg2 and AC3 audio there.
fuzzzzy wrote on 9/18/2003, 12:56 PM
I have the same problem, a 1.5 hour MPEG-1 NTSC (352x288x32)video took 30 hours to render into a PAL DVD Architect video stream

Is there a way Ican reduced this!!!!!!!

PIII 1.3 GIG processor 256 M RAM

fuzzzzy
SonyEPM wrote on 9/18/2003, 1:53 PM
Open the source files in Vegas and render the video as MPEG-2 using the DVD Architect render template.

Render audio from Vegas as AC-3 or PCM (your choice- AC-3 is smaller).

The two above steps will take some time to complete but it'll only have to be done once.

Next: load those files in DVDA and proceed with prepare/burn. There will still be some prepare time, but the heavy lifting (encoding the movie) will already be done so your DVDA prepare time will be dramatically reduced. Additionally, if you say change the text in a menu, or for whatever reason make a series of test burns, you won't have to re-encode the movie over and over.
fuzzzzy wrote on 9/18/2003, 2:10 PM
It's the rendering in VV4 that takes 30 hours !

fuzzzzy
ronchast wrote on 9/19/2003, 12:20 AM
THANKS FOR THE ADVICE, WE ARE TRYING YOUR METHODS. DVDA IS A REALLY NICE PROGRAM, WE ARE JUST NOT USED TO RENDERING TIMES LIKE THESE. ... WE JUST INSTALLED VEGAS AND WILL TRY TO RENDER TO MPEG 2 AND AC-3 NEXT PROJECT.

RC
kameronj wrote on 9/19/2003, 10:09 PM
Fuzzy (and anyone else who is interested),

Depending on the source of the video you are trying to render (and the power of your system) - it can take sometime to render. That is not un-normal.

But a nice clean captured uncompressed and edited AVI over 2 hours long captured directly from my Sony Digicam and throwing in all sorts of transitions and extra graphics and audio only took about 4 hours to render.

Sweet.

As for the original poster question - yeah....bring your AVI into Vegas and render as an MPEG2 (and the audio as AC3) - speeds the DVD making process up.