How long does it take you to author a dvd?

[Gplracer]

I am using TMPEGen to do my first dvd. It says it is going to take 58 mins to author the dvd. Is this amount of time normal? I would assume I then have to burn the dvd. This is time consuming. Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

Which TMPGEnc program are we talking about?

[Gplracer]

I am using the dvd author program. It is still going so about 1.5 hours to author a dvd full of vcd videos.

[BobK]

I use TMPGEnc DVD Author and it usually takes 18-20 minutes to create the DVD. That's with an Athlon 2400 (2.0 Ghz).

I also start with DVD compliant mpg-2 files- if you're using VCD files that could account for a longer time.

[Gplracer]

That must be it. I am starting with vcd files. I have a althon xp running at 2365mhz (215x11)

[johns0]

It takes longer cause tmpgenc dvd author has to convert the audio from 44.1 to 48khz.

[Milo]

If your streams are already compliant with DVD standard, disk performance is much more important than cpu. (no re-encoding, only multiplexing)
If you want a big boost in speed, use 2 disks, one with mpeg2 streams and the other to write VOBs.

BTW, for me it takes less than 2 min to compile a 1h30 DVD with Maestro.

[bacardi/avt]

Hey Milo, How many menus and movies do you have in that project?

Just wondering since it ussually takes me about 10-15 min to compile a DVD with 3 movies (each having 3 audios and 5 subtitles) and about 10 menues.

And this is done on a P4 2.8 GHz HT with 1Gb RAM, 4 IDE disks running at 7200 and ATA 100.

[Milo]

Mine are much more simple : 1 movie, 2 audio streams, 1 or 2 subtitles, 4 menus

(2 sata disks, 1 fast hitachi 7200 rpm, 1 raptor 10000 rpm)

[zeta101]

ive just authored my first dvd using tmpgenc author and it took ages

I had three 40 min episodes of a tvshow already on dvd-r and i ripped the vobs from the dvd to my pc, i added a simple main menu and then proceeded to author. About 6 seconds later the program froze and i got warnings from windows that i did not have enough virtual memory and windows was trying to find more blah blah

about 2-3 hours later it did it though!

I have a 1.2ghz athlon, 256mb DDR RAM and 11gig free on my hard disk at the time...does the author time sound right?

What can i do to improve it? free up hard disk space, get more RAM? if i need a faster processor then i would prolly have to get a new MB too, which i dont really want to do...

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

[bacardi/avt]

Use a better program...like DVDMaestro....and yeah I know it's no longer sold...Have you tried DVD Lab? a lot of people on this site seams to like it!

[vtecwil]

zeta101 here are a couple of tips that will improve your performance .
1. Get more physical memory . Get as much as you can afford .

2. Run two seperate hard drives . Store your original files on one and save your finished project to the other .

These two tips will save you a lot of time , especially if you are creating a motion menu .

[ktnwin]

This is how long it takes me to CAPTURE / CONVERT / AUTHOR one hour DVD: 60 mins + 15 mins max
I could also CAPTURE/CONVERT/AUTHOR/BURN in about 80 mins.
Which software: neoDVD Plus.
Again, neoDVD beats everything else in term of speed.

[johns0]

Takes me now 90 minutes to author a 4.37 gb dvd.

[presto]

It takes longer cause tmpgenc dvd author has to convert the audio from 44.1 to 48khz.

This is correct. I capture using vcd settings and then burn to DVD. I realized one day that If I changed the audio in my capture form 44.1 to 48khz then Tmpgenc DVD Author would not have to re-encode the audio. It cut the time from over an hour to 20 to 40 minutes.

[turboman]

Kind of a question that can't be asnwered really.

I've done on average 4-5 DVDs a day. But I have spent as much as 5 weeks doing one title.

I would say on average you should plan on spending 3 times the length of the movie to do everything from start to finish. I have separate computers for DLTs and DVDR so that saves a bit of time and doesn't interupt my work flow.