3 Hour Encoding For Nothing

[dalai]

Last night I decided to wait until night time to burn a dvd because it was taking the length of the video to encode. I've used earlier versions of Roxio where it only took about 20 minutes or so to encode 3 hours worth of video. Anyways, it said 100% complete, clicked OK, and that was it. Nothing. I also tried saving to image, if that makes a difference, and still the 3 hour encoding.

[Beerman]

Last night I decided to wait until night time to burn a dvd because it was taking the length of the video to encode. I've used earlier versions of Roxio where it only took about 20 minutes or so to encode 3 hours worth of video. Anyways, it said 100% complete, clicked OK, and that was it. Nothing. I also tried saving to image, if that makes a difference, and still the 3 hour encoding.

 

What format was the file in? When you saved as an image file, did it create the ISO? Try changing from hardware rendering to software rendering and see if that helps.

If you were able to encode 3 hours of video in 20 minutes, it had to be an mpeg file that was already compliant. If you have compressed avi files like divx, the encode time depends on many things.

[dalai]

All the videos that I have done have been in AVI format. And I have not fully tried the ISO burn because it too is taking the same amount of time up. Like I said before, I've used earlier editions so there must be something I'm doing wrong. And it is on software rendering.

[Beerman]

All the videos that I have done have been in AVI format. And I have not fully tried the ISO burn because it too is taking the same amount of time up. Like I said before, I've used earlier editions so there must be something I'm doing wrong. And it is on software rendering.

 

I've not seen any version of Roxio encode 3 hours of an avi file in 20 minutes! But, that still doesn't explain your problem. Is it just this one file giving you problems? Have you tried another file?

Try encoding to an image file only and post your computer specs as well.

[dalai]

Perhaps I exaggerated the amount of time to encode the video, but, it was no where near the amount of time I was encoding. My computer is nothing special, Dimension E510, 3GHz Pentium 4, 3gigs of RAM, and an HP Lightscribe DVD drive. And yes, other files are taking the same time.

[grandpabruce]

Perhaps I exaggerated the amount of time to encode the video, but, it was no where near the amount of time I was encoding. My computer is nothing special, Dimension E510, 3GHz Pentium 4, 3gigs of RAM, and an HP Lightscribe DVD drive. And yes, other files are taking the same time.

 

 

With that computer, encoding a 3 hour movie production, it should take somewhere between 3 - 5 hours to encode.

 

If you are going to try encoding to a file, use the Folder Set option, not the image file option, to burn. Then use Video Copy and Convert to burn it to a DVD.

 

An image file may cut off anything over 2 hours.