• Compression Techniques

  Calculating Compression Render Times

  Posted by Chip Hess on November 11, 2012 at 11:48 pm

  I have been asked to bid on a huge compression project, for DL DVD.

  I can estimate file sizes using the various bitrate calculators.
  But does anyone know how one might estimate how many hours
  such a task might take, given certain computer specs?

  I’d like to bill hourly
  and give a ballpark idea of the total.

  Thoughts?

  Richard Quiner replied 13 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jason Brown

  November 12, 2012 at 12:38 am

  Are u talking mpeg2 SD-DVD? Or bluray?
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  Chip Hess

  November 12, 2012 at 12:59 am

  mpeg2 SD-DVD Dual Layer
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  Jason Brown

  November 12, 2012 at 3:14 am

  nevermind then…I had an idea for h264 bluray compression.
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  Richard Quiner

  November 20, 2012 at 8:32 pm

  There are a lot of different variable with this. It will largely depend on your computer specs. if you have a good processor and plenty of ram it should be relatively quick. Also the source will affect the speed. i recently did several DVDs from an SD source and encoding the video took about 45 minute – 1 hour per 2 hours of footage. If I were you, I would just run some benchmark tests on the system you’ll be using with footage that is similar to your source to get some ball park estimates. Good Luck!

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