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Sawra

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Hey guys.
Do you any good and fast encoder. It takes for ever to do a 2hr project on DVD. Infact i was forced to use tape to show my work several times dues to problems with dvd. Thank a million:)
 
It would take a long time to do a 2 hour project in SD, much less HD. It's a lot more information for your computer to process, especially with color correction and effects, so it's going to take a long time to render out. I don't think another encoder is going to make a huge difference in render times, a new computer would make a difference.

Just a little tip for all the Premiere users, don't try to encode mpeg-2 for dvd directly from your HD timeline, it will turn out like mush. But if you open your HD timeline in an SD timeline, scale it down from there, then encode to DVD, the results are nice.
 
Sacksnack said:
It would take a long time to do a 2 hour project in SD, much less HD. It's a lot more information for your computer to process, especially with color correction and effects, so it's going to take a long time to render out. I don't think another encoder is going to make a huge difference in render times, a new computer would make a difference.

Just a little tip for all the Premiere users, don't try to encode mpeg-2 for dvd directly from your HD timeline, it will turn out like mush. But if you open your HD timeline in an SD timeline, scale it down from there, then encode to DVD, the results are nice.
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has anyone tried capturing and editing in mpeg2 when you know that the final product is to be delivered as a DVD ??

on my most recent project, material was shot as HDV, then captured and edited as SD mpeg2 -- then finalized as both a DVD (and a streaming wmv).

This was a relatively uncomplicated edit, but this work flow worked well. No muddiness or sync issues -- and the captured original video consumed a far smaller portion of available storage. The laptop -- (a core duo 2 Ghz w/intel 950 motherboard graphics) handled its task without difficulty.

Is there any reason why one should not make the mpeg conversion at the beginning of the process ???
 
I would think that an mpeg conversion would be more difficult to edit than SD .avi because it's a GOP compression.
 
I would have thought that too.

But my system, which has troubles handling HDV, hardly sweats editing DVD quality mpeg2. (Pinacle Studio+ 10.7)

It renders in background, and previews full screen, full definition. Rarely any real sluggishness or waiting for changes to be finished for any basic things (menus, music, titles, fades, disolves etc.) before I can continue working. More complicated stuff like color corection can slow it down fairly briefly.

The final step of rendering before DVD burning takes approx. 60 min. for a 90min. DVD.
 
its a laptop -- running a core duo 2 Ghz cpu, 1.5 megs memory, and intel 950 motherboard graphics.

Mpegs were captured at 720x480, 6000 kbits/sec

secondary drive is a WD 160gb 5400 usb2

A simple project ( a dvd of a political forum) -- graphics in the menu & opening, titles, dissolves, fades, music, vo, audio correction -- but very little color correction.
 
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