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  • Sudden slow down in encoding time

    Posted by Mike Costantini on August 21, 2005 at 3:09 am

    Hi, I have just recently noticed a really horrible decrease in encoding speed using the MainConcept Encoder that comes with Vegas 5.0. I only have an Athlon 1800xp, but a movie used to take about 4 hours to encode, now it’s telling me 23 hours roughly. What could be the cause of this sudden slow down of the encoder?

    Allen Zagel replied 20 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Gary Kleiner

    August 21, 2005 at 3:26 am

    Have you inadvertantly lowered the opacity, e.g. on the track header?

    Gary

  • Mike Costantini

    August 21, 2005 at 3:29 am

    Nope, the opacity is at 100% the whole way through, no effects have been added either… I know my CPU is slow to begin with, but it was never this slow..

  • Gary Kleiner

    August 21, 2005 at 3:32 am

    Have you started the render after rebooting?

    Gary

  • Mike Costantini

    August 21, 2005 at 3:34 am

    sure did, I have nothing at all running, and I’m encoding to slave drive (just as I always have) so I’m not sure why these things would just start taking forrrrrrrrever to encode like they are..

  • Edward Troxel

    August 21, 2005 at 3:46 am

    Could be lots of things. I’m assuming you’re rendering from an edited timeline and not a rendered AVI’s? There are many things that can increase rendering time such as:
    Track header “Level” below 100%
    3D Track Motion
    Various effects
    etc…

    Edward Troxel
    JETDV Scripts

  • Mike Costantini

    August 21, 2005 at 3:51 am

    It’s actually a DivX Pro 5.2 avi codec that I want to encode to mpg2

  • Mike Kujbida

    August 21, 2005 at 10:19 am

    “It’s actually a DivX Pro 5.2 avi codec that I want to encode to mpg2”

    Bingo!! Anytime you try to render to or from anything other than a DV-AVI file, your render times increase, in some cases quite substantially as you’ve discovered.

  • Allen Zagel

    August 22, 2005 at 10:09 am

    Just a thought but do you defrag all your drives before rendering? I’ve found that solves a lot of problems. Even some you woudn’t think about.
    Allen

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