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  compressor-how much time should 1 hour 6 min HDV vid take?

  Posted by Juan Avila on February 12, 2010 at 10:21 pm

  Hello,
  Here’s a basic question. How much time (generally) should compressor take to compress a 1 hour 6 min HDV vid to a webcast format? It’s running at 14 hours now and looks like it’s only half done. Is this an acceptable/normal/usual amount of time for compressor?
  Thanks,
  JA

  Juan Avila replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Fishback

  February 13, 2010 at 1:37 am

  I’d help to know what kind of Mac you’re using. HDV is always going to take longer to process as it’s a long-GOP codec. If you engage Qmaster, Compressor will use multiple cores and run a lot faster. On my Mac Pro encoding mv2s for DVDs takes a little over real time. H.264 will probably take longer. I’ve never timed an H.264 encode. You might find more info about this by searching the Compression Techniques forum.

  John

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  Juan Avila

  February 13, 2010 at 3:59 am

  Hi John,
  Thanks for your response. My Mac is a Macbook Pro (2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 Processor, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Mac OS X 10.62, FCP 6.0.6. I’ve tried different conversions to improve my time. I quit Compressor for now and am attempting an MP4 conversion for a Vimeo post using QT 10.0. I don’t know how this will impact the quality of my video. QT is telling me that this is still a 6 hour process.
  Thanks again,
  J.Avila

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