Question about conversion speed

[arcorob]

Greetings,

I have two questions about normalcy of speed.

I use video factory to capture home movie(hi-8) files as avi, produce and then create a 740X480 DV AVI file as output. 50 minutes of video takes 10 hours to convert !!! UGG If I select MPEG1 it is much shorter.

Okay so I now spend the 10 hours and feed the finished AVI file to TMPG to let it do the conversion to MPEG 2. Why ? Much better results (quality) than what video factory renders.

Now it wants 10 hours for each piece ! (I split the large avi because total output would have been about 990 meg, no good to burn)

Bottom line question, is this normal ?

I have a p4 2.0 gig, 1 Gig DDR memory, fast drives (souce drive is NTSF 120 gig to be able to hold large AVI) and destination is 80 Gig 133 mhz MAxtor. So Power is not the issue...

Thanks in advance !

[Tommyknocker]

Why do you need such a huge resolution? If you go with a lower resolution, you may still find an acceptable quality, but a much faster encoding time.

[arcorob]

Hi, thanks for the reply. It is for wedding videos and such. I find if I lower the resolution and work from there, my quality decreases also.

Example, Video Factory would capture 352 by 240 AVI (vcd hey) and then mix down to MPEG but right off the bat, the quality is diminished....and it doesn't give alot of choices for producing. I get AVI uncompressed, AVI for DV , MPEG1 or MPEG 2. I chose AVI DV so it does't give me a 50 gig plus output file though it may be a better idea since that is FAST , then feed to TMPG for the MPEG rendering.

I also have TMPG set for VERY HIGH quality (slow) so perhaps that adds to it also.

[arcorob]

I FOUND THE ANSWER. Under settings, I had clicked NOISE reduction. Was not sure what it did but I did it anyway. 10 HOURS it said for 33 minutes worth of AVI video to MPEG 2. On a hinch, I unchecked. DUH

1 hour and seven minutes. WHAT THE HECK NOISE is it reducing ? Picture or sound ? Why would it exceed it by 10 to 1 ????

[Digifreak]

You thought that was fast, learn to use CCE and cut your time to 1/3 noshit!

[arcorob]

How is this for fast..I NEED HELP. Interlace or NON-INTERLACE

TMPG defaults to INTERLACE

I checked the settings for VIDEO FACTORY DV AVI and it says bottom field first , interleave every .25 seconds

So I gather I have an INTERLACED AVI ?? And that is source so ENCODE should be interlaced too ? I dont seem to be able to get an answer...

Thanks

[Digifreak]

That is correct. The best way to figure this stuff out is do a sample and see what it looks like. If something doesn't look right (ie. jumpy video, comb lines thru video, stretched picture, etc.) then you didn't do something right. If it plays smooth and picture looks good then you're right on the money.