Slow exporting

[blademan37]

I am importing camcorder videos into my Pinnacle Studio Dazzle not to edit them but to just save them as is. It's been a while since I have tried this but do not remember it taking this long to export. I started exporting a 90 minute video last night and today 12 hours later is only 50% completed. Any suggestions as to why ?? Thanks

[_Al_]

No info in your post, so general rules:

encoding speed is a function of your video resolution, its complexity, input codec, output codec, setting for that output codec and hardware

maybe all of the above were different than before

[blademan37]

What info would you need? I am using the same camcorder, same videos and same Dazzle, but something is definitely wrong, I have googled it and nowhere do I see this problem answered.

[johnmeyer]

As AI said, you haven't provided enough information. Here are things that can make one video take longer to encode than another:

1. You are encoding this time to HD resolution whereas in the past you encoded to SD resolution.

2. You have added some sort of change, such as color correction. Some changes add very little time, but others can add enormous amounts of time.

3. You have turned off multi-processing for this encoding app. Most video encoding now uses all the cores and CPUs in your computer, but if that gets disabled, encoding times can skyrocket.

4. You are actually encoding instead of merely cutting. Many people don't understand this distinction but it is incredibly important. If you captured using the DV codec, applied some cuts, and then wanted to save the resulting video, any video program that does "smart rendering" will actually not touch a single pixel of the original video, except at the cut points. In this case, the new video will be created in not much more time than it would take to simply copy the file from one location to another. On the other hand, if your current editing program does not do smart rendering, or if you have done something in your workflow that requires the program to create all new pixels for each and every frame of video, then the time to create the new video can go from minutes to hours.