Pinnacle. How long to create a 15 minute video ? 3 hours ?

[Ronrush]

All the videos I EDIT with Pinnacle Studio 7 are taking an average of 1hour for every 4 minutes of video to CREATE the film. Example:- a 15 minute video on the timeline takes 4 hours to CREATE. With a 26 minute Timeline I left it overnight and it took 8 hours to CREATE a video.
Surely I am doing something wrong or is this normal ?

I use the "make a VCD " setting and it produces a MPEG 1 (EVENTUALLY) and I am pleased with the results but not the time taken.
I have a 1.6 Mhz PC running Windows 98 with 256 memory and have an 80Gig hard disk with 50 Gig freespace.
Can anyone suggest a solution to speed things up OR is this the normal time taken.
Ron Rushbrooke. Newcastle, UK

[Ejoc]

Thats whacky.

Using TMPGEnc, 1.6GHz P4, 512MB RAM, 20GB HD for MPEG2 SVCDs, so higher res and higher bitrates then MPEG1 VCDs. for A constant Bit Rate it takes me 2:1 so 2 Hours to encode 1 Hour of Video. I mostly use a 2 Pass VBR now, and thats 3.5:1 so 3.5 hours to encode 1 hour of movie.

Corse I use AVISynth to do everything but encode, so I do all my interlacing/IVTC/Resize/FPS Converting in that, which improves encoding time.

[ktnwin]

The solutio is easy: avoid using Pinnacle Studio software to encode to MPEG-1 as it's painfully slow and produces very crappy quality.
Use TMPGEnc to encode the AVI file instead, your system should be fast.

[Redd]

Turn off Auto Render.

[Ronrush]

Thank you folks for the helpful replies. I will try everything you suggest to see if it helps.
Ron Rushbrooke

[donpedro]

Any luck ? My ratio is about 1:5. 1h of video takes aboiut 5h to create DVD.