Why is is so slow?

[lszalek]

I want to export my movie into a mpeg file using Premiere 6.5. The timeline is 1hr 30min long, but Adobe informs me that it will take 13 days to export it. Why is is so slow?
I have 1.3 GHz Athlon processor, 128 MB RAM, ge-Force 4 with 128MB memory video card, 120 GByte drive.

Leszek

 

[WizyWyg]

Oh, i see, I was nearly about to type ot a full message

Problem is Premiere's handling of hte MPEG Encoder made for it, it takes hella long time.

Just export your vid as an avi ( uncompressed or at the highest quality you can get via your favorite codec ) and use another program that can encode MPEG ( I recommend Tsunami Mpeg Encder

http://www.tmpgenc.net/

- it can do a 1 hour movie in less than 8 hours on a 733mghz/pent 3/256 mb ram - my old machine )

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

You know, I wish I could do this, but my OS doesn't allow a file size greater than 2G. Very bothersome.

Does it work to make, say 20 5-minute chapter AVIs, then convert each one to an MPEG and then tell the authoring software to connect them seamlessly?

Of course, I could just buy a new machine and install Win2kpro on it...

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[WizyWyg]

I've never had problems slicing up my footag either and joining them. ^_^ DVD Workshop by ulead makes awesome vcd menus and chapters once you have your mpg files ready and they seamlessly are authored together.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Ah, this is good to read. So, there is no stutter when you jump from one to the other?

I've been investigating DVDLab, which several people on another list have spoken well of.

Another place where my darn 2Gb limit hits is in building the disk image. A DVD of course, is approximately 4.7G, so if the authoring software builds a disk image, then once again, I hit my limit.

Maybe I was just badly tainted by early experiences with VideoWave.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[WizyWyg]

^_^. What OS are you using? Im on XP Home and Win2k so I have no problems with the 2GB limit ( lemme guess Win98? ).

but yeah that can be a PITA when you are trying to author a DVD.

And no, its fine when you author the files together, even though they are "sliced" up.

I pretty much learned and tried everything from here:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools