Speed of CCE Basic 4 Premier

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Most everyone seems to be happy with the "lightning speed" of the CCE encoder, but I have never been able to get CCE any faster than 1 encoded frame per second,.. and that sounds pretty slow to me!

I have noticed some posts boasting faster than realtime,..... My XP system runs a 2.66 Gig CPU and the Media drives are SCSI,.. 512 Meg of RAM...
Am I doing something wrong,.. or is the speed of CCE (Basic 2.67) just a myth ?
Cheers

[BJ_M]

can you post your settings? there is something amiss .

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I'll list the settings by memory, because the CCE system is at my work studio... I'm tapping away from home this evening !!!

The settings are all pretty standard... Sequence Header per GOP, YUV colorspace, CBR around the 7500 mark,... DVD compliant,... 4:3,..... Upper field first checked,.....

I am encoding thru the Premiere plugin version, avi files captured in DPS Hollywood and DPS Reality capture cards... these avi's are imported into the Premiere timeline, and then exported to an MPEG2 file via the CCE plugin,.. and voila, a beautiful DVD file,.. however 1 hour of encoding takes around 25 hours to produce,... it's been this way for years,... I presumed it was just the way CCE worked..... so are you saying that CCE should be a LOT faster?

I suppose one theory could be that the Hollywood/Reality avi's may be what is slowing down the conversion, but in the light of the fact that Premier reads them fine, I think not.... they are Uncompressed PAL avi's

I would value any opionins out there.

[wwaag]

I suspect that the speed problem lies in Premiere, not CCE. If you do your encoding directly from the timeline (export movie), my experience has been that it is slow whichever encoder you use. I have used Tempgen, MainConcept, and Ligos as well as CCE Basic. Same result--slow!!!

For video editing, I use a Matrox RT-10 card which includes hardware support for DV exporting. Bottom line, it's really fast to export a DV file. It only renders "changes", such as transitions, graphics, etc. (roughly real-time on my system) and then almost 10Xreal-time for the unchanged parts (usually the vast majority). I then encode using the standalone version of CCE which is quite fast. For me, at least, this 2-stage process is a lot faster than encoding directly from the timeline.

[BJ_M]

i had a DPS card and got rid of it - though we still have several systems here with them .. are you using the dps to avi frame sever that letch/dps supplies or did you accually render out a avi .. or are you using the virtual frames on your capture DPS drive ?

by the way to the other poster - the DPS is uncompressed AVI - it isnt DV ..

if you are using the virtual frames or the avi frame server for DPS == it will be slooow ..

basicly if the DPS hardware is running to translate the avi - CCE will be slow frame serving through premeire .. that was my experiance also .. and anything frame served out of premiere is slow anyway as the other poster said -- real slow .. CCE should be faster than real time based on your settings