Why is rendering so slow?

[enc]

I am a complete newbie to all of this stuff so go easy with me

I am using Pinnicale studio 8 to capture mini DV footage via fire wire on to what i realise is an under spec machine....Pentium 3, 800mhz, 20GB HD, 380MB ram.

DVR drive is a pioneer- 106

10 minutes of captured video is using approx 9 GB of hard drive (no feature lengh epics for me at the moment then )

I am having no problems capturing or editing footage from the camcorder but the rendering process is taking around 1.5 to 2 hours and thats for only 10 minutes of footage is this normal or is it because of my under powered PC?

Thanks in advance.

[SLICK RICK]

Why is rendering so slow?

Answer:

Pentium 3, 800mhz, 20GB HD, 380MB ram.

SLICK RICK

[stvn]

10 minutes of captured video is using approx 9 GB of hard drive

yeah sure youve got a low spec system but OMG 10 minutes of captured video is using approx 9 GB of hard drive :!

[andkiich]

If it's uncompressed AVI, it could be that large.

[Craig Tucker]

But why capture it uncompressed, transfer DV via firewire is only 13GB per hour.

[saurabh_fzr]

I was also having similar problems (the size of the file) but not of this magnitude.

I was trying to capture thru USB and 12 minutes of video would occupy around 4 GB of space (with frame size of 320 x 288) where as If I capture using fire wire it is 19-20 minutes of video ( frame size 720 x 566) on the same HDD space.

I could not understand that.

If somebody could throw sum light on it ?

[Richard_G]

If you have Firewire, why are you even bothering with USB? Firewire transfers the data file from one medium to another (DV tape to hard drive for example), USB will almost certainly be converting your digital source to analogue, capturing using whatever compression codec you have chosen to use and then converting back to digital. Otherwise the file sizes would be smaller.

Forget USB, use Firewire and get full frame video (which should be 720 x 576 for PAL, 720 x 480 for NTSC) and smaller files.

[bugster]

10 minutes of captured video is using approx 9 GB of hard drive

DV is ~ 13GB per hour. Are you (perhaps without realising) converting to uncompressed video when capturing?

[Spicuzza]

"I am having no problems capturing or editing footage from the camcorder but the rendering process is taking around 1.5 to 2 hours..."

Enc, the key to minimizing "rendering time" in your video editing program is to have the "captured video" be the same "frame size" as the final project settings.

For example, If I capture video footage at 352 x 480 uncompressed AVI,
the final output of my DVD project will be set at the exact frame size 352 x 480.

So, if your captured DV is 720 x 480 and your final output setting is 352 x 240 it's going to take a while with your computer to do the job.

Also, make sure NO programs are running in the background and don't try multi-tasking while encoding. Typically, with my machine 10 minutes of video will take about 20 minutes to render. Your machine should NOT take any longer than about 35 minutes for 10 minutes of video!

[heinz]

Yes you need to set your setting so they are the same, try using a compressed on, I have had similar problems, it is probably mostly because of your PC, but not as much as u'd think, rendering is still slow on 2 gightz machines. I gave up on Pinnicle, it is a crappy program, no I used ADOBE Premier, have an AMD Atholon XP 2800+ 2ghz Processor and a 256mb GFX card and it still takes a while to render.

[enc]

Ok thanks for replys.

Will be experimenting for the next couple of days. I will let you know how i get on

[Craig Tucker]

Ok thanks for replys.

Will be experimenting for the next couple of days. I will let you know how i get on

The first thing you should do is make sure you are doing a direct digital transfer of the DV file. Because with filesizes that you are getting you must be capturing.