How do you improve your authoring speed ?

[power2084]

Hi !

I'm currently using ConvertXtoDVD to author my DVDs, currently I'm processing
39 fps, what would I need to change in my hardware to improve that ?

Processor ? (currently AMD Athlon XP 2800+)
Video Card ? (Radeon 9800 Pro 128)

Both ? And if it's both, please tell me in what proportion one is more important than the other
(if you know, of course).

Anyway, give me a general idea...

Thank in advance.

[guns1inger]

Video card has nothing to do with it. CPU will make some difference, but not as much as you would hope. On the bright side, if you were using a good quality encoder, doing mutli-pass encoding, perhaps filtering the video to clean it up, then authoring in a proper authoring tool, the whole process would take much, much longer.

ConvertXtoDVD is about as quick as it gets. The amount of money would would have to spend to speed it up would not be worth the difference it would make.

If you have two hard drives, try saving the output from ConvertXtoDVD to a different drive to the one the movie is on. That is probably worth a frame or two per second.

[mats.hogberg]

I'd say 39 fps is pretty impressive...

/Mats

[jagabo]

I don't know about COnvertXtoDVD but TMPGEnc and CCE on a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ encode about twice as fast as an XP 2800+. That would require more than just a CPU swap though. A low end Core 2 Duo runs about the same speed (and cost) as the X2 3800+.

[SingSing]

Use two hard disks, source on one drive and export to the other.

[power2084]

Many thanks !