Encoding real slow 1.2fps whats wrong?

[barry153]

I am new to DVD burning since Thanksgiving. I have only burned several DVDs from my home movies shot on Sony TRV22 miniDV and transferred to my comp via Firewire. I am using Roxio Easy Creator 6 Plat Suite. I had burned several 30 mins worth of video recently and the Encoding process went much quicker with those. Right now I am burning another of my daughters dance recital videos and so far the encoding is at 26hrs at 1.2fps. I am using WinXP with 1gig crucial mem and 1.47 XP Athlon on a MSI Nforce2 MB. I dont think there is anything running in the background so I dont understand why the encoding is at only 1.2fps. I did update the DVD Builder last week so maybe the update is the problem. Is there any better freeware out there that I can use to capture, encode, burn to DVD? Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Oh Roxio says the estimated size of the video I am encoding is 3.88GB if that helps...original DV tape was prob 1hr and 20mins of footage.

[rcb]

barry -

Unfortunately, there's not freeware "all in one" apps available with features similar to what you are using. But, you might look at this guide which uses a combination of several freeware programs: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/120013.php

No question that something is amiss with your roxio app insofar as the very long encoding rate/time you are seeing.

If you don't get more help here, suggest you go to roxio's forum and post there.

[barry153]

Thanks...it finally finished after 28hrs of encoding...quality looks excellent to the original tape but still something has got to be wrong with the encoding speed so I will look into that more. I just wanted a basic all in one program to get started and make some DVDs. I plan to purchase new comp Intel P4 3.0 sata drives loaded yada yada for video only processing later. I also plan to move past Roxio soon too thanks to all the info here...I just need to read more first and test things. Love these forums! Thanks.