Export to DVD takes 6 or 7 hours

Funky Monk · #1 (**permalink**) 01-11-2006, 06:16 AM

I captured a 3 hour PAL video tape. This ended up being 36 GB on the Hard Drive. When I tried to export to DVD (encoding VBR - approx. 3.8 GB) it literally took all day to burn to DVD.

Should it really take this long to transcode and burn? Is this normal or is there something wrong?

System:

P4 Celeron 2.3 Ghz
768 Mb PC3200 ram
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 (updated to 1.5.1)
120 GB SATA Drive for capture
Windows XP SP1
Matrox G550 dual head graphics card (32 meg)
Creative Soundblaster Live Platinum Sound Card
Matrox X Tools build 6122 + Hotfixes

karmatized · #2 (**permalink**) 01-11-2006, 06:27 AM

normal....

It can take a while depending on resolution and settings, also keep in mind anything you do in terms of Transitions and effects of any kind increase the time it takes. Its compleatly normal. You just have to sit it out and read or book or something

grewell912 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-11-2006, 07:36 PM

scrap the celeron processor, shouldnt take nearly as long with say a 3.4 ghz ht pentium 4!

Nikosony · #4 (**permalink**) 01-11-2006, 10:49 PM

Yes ditch the celeron processor and get a Pentium 4 with HT, it's just too slow for video work and you need to upgrade to Service Pack 2 for Windows. A little bit more memory say One Gig would also be a good idea. Do you really need three hours of continous footage? The whole idea of video is to make a short enjoyable film rather than a James Cameron where your audience gets bored after half an hour and start yawning and looking at their watches.

Funky Monk · #5 (**permalink**) 01-12-2006, 08:58 AM

What I was describing was that a customer wanted a 3 hour video tape converted to DVD. I ended up chopping it in half and putting it on 2 discs. Straight conversion - no effects or frills.

grewell912 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-12-2006, 12:24 PM

but i'd still scrap the celeron, they are a processor for email and web.. (hardly) my friend has Ppro 1.5, and a celeron, and he cannot print to tape... it messes up after a few minutes!

Funky Monk · #7 (**permalink**) 01-12-2006, 12:32 PM

Nikosony mentioned that I "need to upgrade to Service Pack 2 for Windows". Is this really necessary? I have read the nightmare stories about SP2, both generally and specific to Adobe PP.

karmatized · #8 (**permalink**) 01-12-2006, 01:11 PM

sp2 doesnt have problems really, its PP that has the issue, And its easy to fix, doesnt happen with the current version.

Premeir pro 1 had the issue pp 1.5 is fine

pp 1 had an issue when rendering to MPEG file it would crash out of no where. It was easy to fix tho all you needed to was rename your pp exe file to anything else and fix the shortcut.

Nikosony · #9 (**permalink**) 01-13-2006, 11:30 PM

I can't speak for everyone on this forum but if you've purchased a PC recently or built one yourself I'm 99% certain it will have SP2 on it. I bought a HP last March and it ran fine up until November and then it developed a few problems... Bad BIOS Checksum and No Input Signal to name two of them. No one has said anything about SP2 causing either of them.