TMPGEnc Encode Time

[SEALs1230]

I just encoded a movie that was 3h22m55s with TMPGEnc Plus and it took 13h58m20s. To know the settings that I used, I followed this guide step by step. https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/186739.php The movie I used had 23.976. The only thing I did different was prior to encoding, the movie was split into three seperate avi files that I joined using Virtualdub. Also, after extracting the audio, I frameserved the video to TMPGEnc Plus using Virtualdub because I resized the movie from 640x272 (2.35:1) to a 16:9 format to shrink the boarders. To do this I used the resize filter and the sharpen filter. From what I hear, it usually takes about twice the length of the movie to encode. However, in my case it took about four times the length of the movie to encode it. I was expecting to take longer since I was doing the frameserve thing and stuff but I wasnt expecting 14 hours of encoding. My computer is a P4 3.2 GHz, 800 MHz FBS, 1Mb Cache, 1GB RAM. If anyone knows if this is normal let me know. I dont mind waiting if it is in fact normal, but if its not I would like to know why its taking so long then. Thanks

[jdizzy40]

Converting your AVI's to MPEG would have saved you all the time in the world.

[SEALs1230]

Thats what encoding them does isnt it? makes the avi's into mpeg that I can then author?

[mats.hogberg]

SEALs, you're correct - don't understand what jdizzy means. Never used the sharpen filter, so that may or may not be the cause of the twice normal encoding time. In TMPGEnc, the setting with highest impact on encodeing times is Motion Search Precision - never use Highest, as it's slow like molasses and doesn't noticably improve matters at all - possibly use High or even faster settings. It makes all the difference in the world for encoding times. The guide has it set to "fast" - I'd agree.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

I can resize and unsharp in virtualdub, frameserve to CCE (admittedly a much faster encoder) and get a 2-pass vbr encode of a 90 minute avi in around 5 - 5.5 hours on an AMD 1800+ with 768mb of DDR2700. Not exactly state of the art hardware. Given tmpgenc's speed, I'm not that surprised at 3 - 4 times.