It took 11 hours with TMPGEnc 3 to make a 2 hour video folder

[nhbfan12345]

Now, I'm wondering if this is normal or not. I was using it and it took maybe 30 min to an hour to encode my footage, but as soon as I put PAL clips in there, it goes SO SLOW. Is this normal ? ? There was 1 hour NTSC and 1 Hour PAL clips on a dvd I was creating and it took 11 hours.

[filmboss80]

Is your final output a single NTSC project? Or are you trying to making a DVD with separate NTSC and PAL versions? It sounds like you are attempting to make a standards conversion during the already CPU-intensive process of doing an mpeg encode. (I didn't even know that TMPGEnc 3 could handle that task.) Also, if your computer specs are current, you may lack CPU and RAM muscle. There are other factors, like the time it would take for a 2-pass VBR encode. TMPGEnc is not known for fast encoding as it is. If the final output turned out okay, be thankful it only took 11 hours.

[nhbfan12345]

My final output was a NTSC project.

I'm sort of a newb in this subject, but what exactly in the process is taking so long ? Is it the program taking the PAL footage and converting it to NTSC ?

And also, what is the normal run time if I make a project NTSC files and create a dvd output folder ? ? ?

[jman98]

Yes, TMPGenc is converting the PAL footage to NTSC if your final output is NTSC. There are various settings you can use that can slow down or speed up the encodes. According to your Computer Details info, your CPU is very old and you don't have a lot of memory. Yes, I can believe that converting PAL to NTSC on your PC could take that long.

If you don't change resolution and frame rate, it will go faster. It's been a long time since I"ve encoded on a PC like yours, but I'd make a guess that it might take 2-3 times as long as the video to encode it without converting it from PAL to NTSC.