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Amount of time it takes to compress w/compressor
I’ve been getting about a 5:1 time ratio for compressing AV from Quicktime to m2v and ac3 via compressor to make files for use in DVDSP. Is this a common duration? I sometimes have 60 minute programs, and am looking at a 5 hour compression session. Seems ridiculous to me, so I thought maybe I’ve got some messed up settings or something.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks,
MikeG5 – 2GIG DUAL – 2GIG RAM
FCP; AE; PS; DSP -
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What settings are you using?
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Also it takes much much longer to use the “Export to Compressor” option than it does to just export a Quicktime reference movie and “manually” import it into Compressor.
The reason is that if you use the “Export to Compressor” option, all the effects in the timeline are re-rendered directly to MPEG-2, instead of using the render files you created in editing. This can make things take an enormously long time, though it can produce a slightly cleaner encode….but in many cases the difference is not noticable. I only use this option if I am unsatisfied with the results of the other method.
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