frameserving SLOW from Vegas to CCE

[sdsumike619]

Why is it going (endcoding) so painfully slow when I frameserve from Vegas 5 to Cinemacraft encoder? I'm using Satish's frameserver

[erratic]

Did you apply several effects on your video in Vegas? That would slow things down. Is rendering the timeline to (DV) AVI also slow? In that case the frameserver is not to blame.

I know that someone once ran the following tests:

1. Vegas rendering to DV AVI, then encoding the AVI file with CCE afterwards.
2. Frameserving from Vegas to CCE.

Option one was a little bit faster, and I mean the total time of rendering to DV and then encoding. So Satish's frameserver is not very fast, but not painfully slow either. I haven't tested it myself, though.

[sdsumike619]

no effects, it's a DivX avi file and if I render the avi directly from CCE, it takes about 25 mins for an hour's worth of footage, but if I use the encoder in Vegas, it takes HOURS..

I think that there's something wrong with the CCE encoder because once it encodes, Ulead DVDWS2 doesn't like the file and attempts to re-encode it but basically locks up. I've never had this problem with the mainconcept encoder in Vegas...

Does anyone know HOW to make the CCE settings right so that Ulead doesn't try to re-encode?

[erratic]

I guess Vegas has problems with your DivX file, but you don't need Vegas to convert DivX to DVD MPEG-2 with CCE. There are several guides right here. I have also read good things about The FilmMachine but I've never used it. It supports CCE.