How long does it take to encode a movie?

mroberge55 wrote on 9/11/2008, 9:05 PM

I'm presently burning a DVD with a bunch of clip that I have made out of avi files from a digital video camcorder. The original file was huge and took clip out of it to keep just what I like. I have a dozen of clip that I'm burning as seperate files on the DVD to playback on tv. All toghether 4.2gb worth of video. Now Magix is encoding clips to burn them after but it spent 17hours encoding 1 clip that was about 6 minutes long. There's 25 steps to the process it says, at that pace it's gonna take me 2 weeks to encode and burn that disc. Is this normal? Should I stop encoding? Any pointers would be nice.

My rig has the following specs:

Pentium IV 3.2ghz
3gb ram
nividia 7600gs 256mb
hard drive :internal 160gb-external 500gb
Windows XP home edition SP2
Magix Movie edit pro 14 plus

Comments

siglersmalz wrote on 9/15/2008, 12:25 AM

Wow! Is your CPU actually doing anything? I've never heard of encoding taking that long. You could try an experiment: try exporting the move (File - Export) to MPG and see if the timing is the same. You PC seems beefy enough, so there might be something wrong.

One more point, I've never had much luck with AVI files; I avoid that format like the plague. You should import your camcorder video into MPEG format.

Tim

zagcarlos wrote on 8/1/2010, 7:31 PM

Dear mroberge55, Monday Aug 2010.
I can not help much but have a suggestion or two.
I have used Version 11 for about five years and in making big, 3-4 GB movies I have only had this type of problem once.
I removed some small clips, 10 minutes or so and started encoding, making DVD movie, all went as usual, 2 to 3 hours encoding. The problem one showed it was going to takes days to encode.
I do not use AVI files but MPEG 2 files.
Cut your movie to say 15 minutes and try again. When testing it's a good idea to test with short movies, less than say 15 mins.
Life wasn't meant to be easy.
John
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