Too long time for rendering

[base689]

My hardware is the following: Windows XP Pro, Pentium 4 Celeron 2.4 GHz, HD 160 GB WD, 512 MB, Ati Radeon 9200 128MB, Motherboard ECS P4 400MHz FSB, CD-ROM Creative 52x, DVD-ROM LG HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM LG GDR8162B, DVD writer LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B 2x, Capture Card Pinnacle PCTV tuner, IEEE 1394 (firewire) card, Modem 56K, Modem ADSL PCI.

My software’s are: Nero, Ulead Studio Video 5, Pinnacle Studio 8.

I succeeded in capturing my Sony DV tapes (through IEEE 1394), rendering and DVD burning, everything performed with Nero, from capturing to DVD burning, everything is fine.

Problems arose when I tried to convert my old movies from VHS PAL tapes onto DVD. After a lot of unsuccessful trials (failed at various stages) of capturing (with the above SW’s) and having a DVD as an output, I succeeded in something slightly better capturing from VHS PAL tape onto HD using Pinnacle PCTV card own software, only to discover the AV sync issue that arises from the different clock of different capturing devices (audio through VIA AC’97 and video through Pinnacle PCTV). First DVD I burned this way, I got after about 2 h of movie something like 5 seconds of "out of sync" between audio and video.
Thanks to this very precious forum, I realized the worldwide existence of AV sync issues when capturing from analogue sources, and I downloaded the outstanding VirtualVCR, very "small" and very powerful free software, that solved immediately ANY issue about AV sync.
To make short a long story: I captured a movie from VHS PAL tape of 2h 12’ of duration with VirtualVCR (720x576 - 25 fps), which VirtualVCR yielded a 53 GB AVI file (corresponding to 6.692 MB/sec = 0.402 GB/min).
Then I launched Nero Vision Express, I added to my project the above AVI file, and moving on the system firstly said to me that it could not burn the AVI file onto DVD because the output VOB files were bigger than 4.4 GB, so I told the system to write the output VOB files onto HD, which it did it in 12 h.
Afterwards, I launched Nero with the "multiple DVD’s onto 1 DVD" option and the system, after having automatically reduced the VOB files to an overall size of 4.4 GB, finally burned my old movie onto my DVD. Quite good quality DVD, considering its source (VHS PAL tape).
My question is: Is it normal that Nero, for rendering the relevant VOB files out of a 53 GB AVI file, takes something like 12 h?
Am I missing anything? Am I doing anything wrong?
Is there any other free software out there capable of rendering a 53 GB AVI file in WAY LESS THAN 12 h?
Thanks in advance for your help!!!

[smearbrick1]

53 GB in 12 Hrs? Sounds about right to me. I used to render 8 GB files in just about 3 hours... so... yes... Sounds about right. Besides, I don't believe Celerons are the best for encoding. They don't have the L2 Cache that a P4 at 2.4 ghz has. Also, FSB speed may have a bit to do with it too.

[Baldrick]

please don't cross post.