Exporting to DVD

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Sluze

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I'm using Ppro 1.5 and exporting video from a dvx100b shot in 24p
i'm using 4mb vbr 2 pass (as i'm new to editing it was the default so i used it)
and it seems to take hours and hours for short clips of 5-10 minutes.

my comp specs are:
amd64 3200+ (939)
1 gig dual channel ram
7200rpm hdd
and the burner is 8x

so i'm not sure what the problem is? (i should mention that i have magic bullet and use it often not sure if that would make a difference in the coding process, i does take forever to render)

any help would be great
thank you in advance
 
Rendering/encoding time will depend greatly on the speed of your system and the number and type of effects you add to your footage. Your system specs are equal to mine so a 10 minute clip should be complete pretty quickly. Again, it depends on what effects you're adding but I would expect something measured in minutes rather than hours. HOWEVER, if you're using Magic Bullet, all bets are off. It can easily increase the rendering time 10 fold (or so it seems). PLUS you're picking a 2-pass encoding preset which basically doubles the encoding time.

If you *really* want the Magic Bullet effect on your footage, I would keep the effect turned off until you're happy with everything else. Then turn in on for the final render. Also I would pick an encodiing preset with a higher bandwidth and CBR encoding. Use a preset or make one more like 7MB CBR high quality.

-Dan
 
would it be easier to export to the hard drive first then use a different program to create the dvd? b/c exporting to the hard drive is usually fast.
 
I've only used the export-to-DVD feature a couple of times so I may be wrong on this but my impression was that it renders and encodes to disk first and then writes to DVD. Normally, I do as you suggest and encode to disk in mpeg2 and use Adobe Encore to build and burn to DVD. If you don't have Encore, there are products that can do this as well.

Still, if you watch your disk activity light, I think you'll see that the harddisk is not all that busy. On my system, rendering and encoding are more CPU than harddisk intensive; as least with standard definition video. Hi def has more serious harddisk demands.

-Dan
 
If you've already preview rendered your timeline, in will be faster to export a DV AVI and then two-pass encode it with Encore or something (it doesn't have to render the MB stuff at all since you've already preview rendered). There's technically generational loss but I wouldn't worry too much about it.

If you haven't preview rendered though it doesn't make much difference.
 
yah definatley exporting as movie and using antoher software to make dvd

go and download trail of dvdlab pro..i think they have a free trial..i stand by that software..learning curve is simple...
 
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