Uncomressed OMF > MPEG II

[mista breeze]

I posted earlier about trouble compressing a file to an MPEG II, with very little answers I figured this time I should be more specific. I'm compressing an uncompressed 300GB OMFI Media File to an MPEG II. I'm compressing the file in Sorenson Squeeze 4.0 and using AVID Xpress HD. Processing with a duel core 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon processor and 2GB of Ram. However it seems to take weeks to compress the file to a point until the program shuts down.

My questions are: If it's the size of the project. Can I split it up into smaller pieces compress them and still link them up to one another in AVID DVD and make them run as if they were a single movie with correct chapter points? Or can I transcode it down to a smaller file size, but still not loose significant quality or none at all? At this point it's really the quality that I'm holding on to here. Or the even better solution of there being a way to take this original file and speed up the process.

Thanks and Merry Christmas.

[Scorpion King]

I have no idea but with your specs saying "500GB" for your hdd then maybe the program is running out of space.

or

The file has an error in it and when the encoder hits the error you crash.

I would try to split a file that takes weeks to encode myself. I would say to split at the chapter points (breaks).

What would slow the encoder down is resizing, filtering, deinterlacing, etc and encoding. Not to mention the audio. But again, with only a 500GB drive and a 300GB file you don't really have room to split or multi-process that file. lol

Lets say we suspect a file error and would like to try and do a direct stream copy in hopes to fix the file... we're talking 600GB min space required (300 for the original file and 300 for the stream copy), not to mention room for the OS and installed programs..... 500GB just isn't enough room.

Good luck.