Render Time

[gaspower]

Hello,
I am taking VHS through a DV camcorder pass through and capturing with Vegas 5.0. Then I am importing into DVD Architect as a single movie. The capture is about 90 minutes, and the rendering is between 3-4 hours. Any quicker way, capture as a different format? I understand capture time equals capture time, but would be great to speed up rendering time.

System:
3.0mhz
1 gig memory

Thanks JR

[wwjd]

A faster way would be to use something like the Hauppauge PVR250, which will do real time on board DVD compliant mpg2 conversion.

To add chapters and menus I would use TMPGenc DVD Author. It will not re-encode compliant mpg2 and is a very fast authoring app. It is also good at cutting mpg2 at 'I' frames.

Another approach would be to go VHS to DVD recorder. If you want to do any cutting or editing then you will need to that on the PC.

It really depends on what you want to do, what your goals are?

High quality, lots of editing and cutting, then stay with what you are doing. Edit and trim while DV avi then convert to compliant mpeg.

High quality but very little editing or cutting then go the DVD recorder route.

Good quality with a fair amount of editing and cutting then go the Hauppauge route.

One final thought and that is that CCE Basic and Procoder are very good mpeg encoders that are also fast at converting DV avi to compliant mpg2.

[guns1inger]

Are you changing the video in any way ? Filters can add to render time. I would also try outputting from Vegas as mpeg2, rather than letting DVDA do the encoding. You will get compliant (and DVDA friendly) output faster than using DVDA to do it.