Proccessing time?

[distendad]

Would appreciate comments on expected conversion times.

I am capturing my old VCRs with an ATI8500 AIW card direct to mpeg2. For good quality tapes this seems to work well. however some of the VCR captures need to be improved; so I am trying to filter in virtualdubMod and frameserve to TMPGenc Pro. This process reports an estimated time of 30 hours for one 4.3GB Mpeg2 file. My PC is a 2.2GHz pentium 4 running XP pro with 1GB memory and a 7200rpm HD with 75 GB free on an E drive. The drives are served by a Promise Ultra ATA/133 controller. The CPU is running at 100%. Is this time normal? The ATI capture/conversion to mgeg2 is in real time, but filtering is weak.
Carl D

[jimmalenko]

Is the 30hrs just for TMPGEnc ? That sounds way too long for mine given your PC specs. Having said that, by the time you put filters on, it could take a while. You don't mention the length of the MPEG-2 files timewise or what rate control you are using. These will have an effect on encoding times.

[PIntag]

It depends, in large part, on the settings in TMPGenc that you are using. I have a slightly slower P4 system than you do, and it took me about 15 hours to encode about 1 hour of DV footage. I was using the "high-quality TMPGenc" settings specified in the guide on this site (2-pass VBR). Can you specify which settings you are using in TMPGenc?