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[uesama]

I have MC8 , atholon2400, 1 gig ram ginormus video card,16x dual dvd burner usb2.0
When I try to burn a dvd ,with or without a menu it takes hours to encode.
My video source is my hard drive,
example; 230 mb avi will take almost 3 hours to encode and burn.
Is this normal?

[grandpabruce]

uesama, on Jan 15 2006, 08:09 AM, said:

I have MC8 , atholon2400, 1 gig ram ginormus video card,16x dual dvd burner usb2.0
When I try to burn a dvd ,with or without a menu it takes hours to encode.
My video source is my hard drive,
example; 230 mb avi will take almost 3 hours to encode and burn.
Is this normal?

Encoding is CPU intensive.  If you have a processor less than 3.0 GHz, then it is going to take forever to encode a long production.  Even at 3.0 GHz, mine takes a long time.  That is normal.

[jimbo206]

Encoding a slide show with 400+ photo's (1 hour program) and some low resolution video took about 4 hours with an Athlon XP 3000+ processor (2.1gz). If you capture as an mpeg using the roxio capture (for videos only) the encoding time really gets cut down.  I suppose because its encoded as an mpeg which doesn't have to be re-encoded when burned.  The quality of the finished product I've seen when doing it this is way exceeds the quality from version 7 in my experience.  The video captured from a Sony minidv trv19 using roxio and burned using mydvd came out very bright and clear.  In version 7 the quality was good but somewhat dull.  I wonder if there is something similar to "Video Soap" that is applied to make things look sharper in emc8.

[ggrussell]

uesama, on Jan 15 2006, 09:09 AM, said:

230 mb avi will take almost 3 hours to encode and burn. Is this normal?

If that AVI is in DivX format, it will have to be completely re-encoded to the MPEG2 format for a DVD.  I have a system similiar to jimbo's.  I use only DV AVI and 'average' render is about 3X to 4X the length of the video.  So 3 to 4 hour rendering time for a 1 hour video is average on MY machine.  Your results may be longer or shorter depending on your CPU, etc.