Converting to MPEG-2

[Demy]

Hi, I make movies for some classes that come through where I work. They are about 15-20 mins long. We use Adobe Premier to do all the work on them.

We just started giving the students a CD with thier movie on it along with some other things. We ran into a problem when we convert it over to MPEG-2. It takes over an hour is this normal is there something else that we should be doing to make this simpler?

If you need more information just ask I'll be checking back all day seeing there is no class and im bored...Thanks for the help!

[reboot]

1 hour for a 20 minute encode is maybe a bit slow, and it depends on the computer's speed and operating system, as well as the encoder engine. I would say "normal", if the system is slower than 1.5ghz, the clips are very hi-res, and you're doing 2 pass vbr encode.

[BJ_M]

simpler or faster ?

[Demy]

Faster without degrading the picture. We want to give them something nice that they can take home and show around. The computer's specs should be somewhere here....I filled out all that when I registered for the forum....Think the only mistake I made was there is 2 Gigs of ram not 1. What exactly is the encoder engine... and you lost me here...and you're doing 2 pass vbr encode.

[BJ_M]

Adobe Premier Pro uses the Main Concept encoder -- which is very fast ....

if using a prev. version of Adobe Premier - a upgrade would be in order (quality would go up also)

[Demy]

I think we have 6...

[BJ_M]

that uses the ligos encoder -- upgrading to 7 (Pro) would make a big diff.

[Demy]

I was wrong the last one we had was 6.5 now we just have Pro...

[reboot]

With those system specs, and Mainconcept's encoder engine, I would say that's terribly slow.
I can encode 2 hours using Mainconcept 1.4.2 to dvd mpeg2 vbr 2pass, in about 1.5 hours.
Unless Premier is doing a bunch of other stuff in the background...

[Demy]

Well that was the only thing the computer was doing...Maybe there's something messed up with the computer itself...dunno can anyone think of a reason why it could take so long?