Tested apps to speed up transition??

[willmoodom]

How's everyone? I've been doing some research on using avisynth through avsp. Seems everyone likes it for it's speed amongst other attributes. I myself am a little disappointed in the speed factor. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? My system consists of msi kt3 ultra2 w/ athlon xp 1800,756 ram,20G main for programs and a 80G for vids and stuff and I'm running XP pro with all upgates. What I did was borrow a script from "FulciLives" to convert a pal to ntsc and I added "levels" to brighten up a bit. In vdubmod, everything looks and sounds good! when attempting to encode to project with all settings, the time to complete is outrageous!! 9hrs for cce and 10 hrs for tmpge dvd author. Am I doing something wrong?? Original source was vob. Should i have converted to avi instead? If I had used vdubmod for editing and convertx2dvd for conversion and burn total time would have been around 2.5 to 4hrs max. I was counting on this new way to be quicker. Any help?

[edDV]

You do understand you are re-interpolating frames while recalculating pixel positions and 8bit levels for each pixel?

What shouldn't that take near infinite time.

Test short clips first.

[willmoodom]

I don't know.......!)hrs just seems a bit long for a 2 hour movie. Why the time difference between avisynth/cce or tmpge (10hrs) and vdubmod/convertx2dvd (4) as a unit?

[manono]

1. What's the entire script?
2. Why are you using VDub at all for editing? You were using it and then frameserving into ConvertX? I don't use ConvertX, and don't edit in VDub, so I don't know.
3. Are you using a script in ConvertX2DVD? It doesn't take AviSynth scripts, does it? So that's an apples to oranges comparison, isn't it? I mean, its PAL2NTSC conversion won't be the same as (or nearly as good as) the one the AviSynth script does, will it?
4. If it takes 9 hours in CCE and 10 hours in TMPGEnc, then just how many passes are you running in CCE?
5. Your computer is a little slow for fast encoding (no insult intended), and if you're running a lot of CCE passes, I don't really find the times out of line (partially depending on the script used).
6. If you want quality, continue using the AviSynth frameserving method. If you want speed without regard to quality, use ConvertX.