600 slide project very long creation time

[PeterSanders]

Hi

 

How long should it take to create a DVD slideshow?

 

The 600 photos I have in my DVD slideshow has so far taken SEVEN hours to reach 90% encoding. This does not of course include the DVD write time as the program still has 10% to go.

 

I have a P4 3.0ghz cpu, windows xp pro SP2, 1gb of ram and only basic computer "stuff" running. (I set up a special "user" that leaves most of my apps unstarted.

 

The network is disabled, as is the screensaver and the power is set to "always on".

 

The images being processed are quite large, 2816 x 2112 pixels, I left them that way so EMC9 can use the pan and zoom feature (VERY nice).

 

I have EMC9 to use (default values?) of 5 secs per slide and the dissolve between slides. There is a 3minute mp3 audio track at the beginning and approx 6 min of two mp3 tracks at the end of the slideshow.

 

I created the show in the photo options to create a slideshow then used video wave to add the audio.

 

I can appreciate that there are many frames to encode, but "SEVEN" hours to 90%, is that normal?

 

Would I be better off creating 2 or 3 smaller projects then combining them in MyDVD?

 

kind regards

 

Peter

[PeterSanders]

Hi

One advantage (and this may actually be a big one) for doing the slideshow in smaller projects is that if something were to go wrong after several hours of rendering you would lose everything rendered so far. With a smaller project you would only lose the one sgement. I always create slideshow and video in small segments

 

I found the auto pan/zoom distracting especially since the p/z might go off in a direction you don't want.

Thank you for the info.

 

You can of course control the direction the p/z takes, or remove it if required.

 

I have found that in almost every slide in my slideshow has the p/z "spot on" almost as though "it" knew the best zoom and pan to take. I could almost think there was some "intelligence" within the processing logic

 

 

Regards

 

Peter

[ggrussell]

Render time can be affected by many things. If you used pan/zoom extensively, that could affect how long it takes. On my last machine which was close to yours, render times was about 3to 4X the length of the project. So a one hour DVD took about 3 to 4 hours to render - average. If you have a two hour project, that time would be about average on that machine.

[PeterSanders]

Hi

Render time can be affected by many things. If you used pan/zoom extensively, that could affect how long it takes. On my last machine which was close to yours, render times was about 3to 4X the length of the project. So a one hour DVD took about 3 to 4 hours to render - average. If you have a two hour project, that time would be about average on that machine.

Thanks for the info.

 

Yes, I did use the p/z feature extensively(?) as it was set as the default setting. As I like the p/z feature and it does seem to both relieve some of the "boredom" of a none p/z slideshow and impress the viewers, I left the default of "ALL" slides to be p/z.

 

Although I would obviously like the process to be faster, I am quite happy to wait for the great p/z result even if it does take so long.

 

(as asked in my previous post) would you know if this (or other) processing is performed faster by utilising several smaller projects and adding them to MyDvd/videowave? I have a "gut" feeling that allowing the use of smaller projects may be more memory "efficient" than rendering a single "BIG" project.

 

I could (and may yet) try this myself, but any other uses can jump in here and advise of their experience.

 

Kind regards

 

Peter

[bimicher]

Hi

Thanks for the info.

 

Yes, I did use the p/z feature extensively(?) as it was set as the default setting. As I like the p/z feature and it does seem to both relieve some of the "boredom" of a none p/z slideshow and impress the viewers, I left the default of "ALL" slides to be p/z.

 

Although I would obviously like the process to be faster, I am quite happy to wait for the great p/z result even if it does take so long.

 

(as asked in my previous post) would you know if this (or other) processing is performed faster by utilising several smaller projects and adding them to MyDvd/videowave? I have a "gut" feeling that allowing the use of smaller projects may be more memory "efficient" than rendering a single "BIG" project.

 

I could (and may yet) try this myself, but any other uses can jump in here and advise of their experience.

 

Kind regards

 

Peter

 

One advantage (and this may actually be a big one) for doing the slideshow in smaller projects is that if something were to go wrong after several hours of rendering you would lose everything rendered so far. With a smaller project you would only lose the one sgement. I always create slideshow and video in small segments

 

I found the auto pan/zoom distracting especially since the p/z might go off in a direction you don't want.