Of course, it's the letterboxing that's taking all the time. Is there some *good* reason to do this? Please don't answer "we want to fool the viewers into thinking it's HD" because that's not a *good* reason.
Although a straight encode to mpg2 for DVD shouldn't take that long either. Ten minutes of SD footage shouldn't take more than maybe 8 minutes to render. Are you also altering the footage in some way? Really, you need to get a baseline. Throw a simple SD title on the timeline say, 10 seconds in duration. Render to mpg2 and time it. My dual core PC takes 3 seconds. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:53 AM, David Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the video I've worked with hasn't been longer than 10 minutes, & it > could take several hours for that. I'm working with hour-long video now, & I > am amazed at how long it's taking. After capturing the video, it took 2 ½ > hours for iMovie to "Letterbox" it, & it's taken 3 hours this morning to > encode & burn the video to disc. I know my system is far from ideal (1.67 > GHx PowerPC, with OS 10.4.1 & 1GB of RAM), but this is all I've got to work > with; I'm using my own equipment, because Admin says there's no money to > purchase the system we need. I can add another 1GB of RAM, but is that going > to make much difference? tia. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
