Best program for a fast encode

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Best program for a fast encode

Posted by Sean Marks on December 10, 2010 at 5:14 am

Hi Guys,

I’m rather uneducated on DVD Authoring, surprisingly enough. When spitting out a 44 minute clip from AVID to Quicktime, I’m finding that AvidDVD can take up to an hour and a half to encode it into an ISO file. Can anyone recommend a program that can spit out an ISO a bit faster than this? I apologize if this is a “newbie” kind of question, but I’m not too well-versed on this.

Thanks
Sean

William Quibell replied 15 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Daniel Ludwig
December 10, 2010 at 10:08 am

hi sean,
what kind of computer do you use? mac or pc? is it an HD-film or an SD-film?

cheers

danny
Sean Marks
December 11, 2010 at 2:40 am

Hi Daniel,

I’m running on –

Windows XP
Intel Xenon, 3.40 GHZ
3GB RAM

The media is SD, 3:1. Typically 8 tracks of video, 16 audio. I realize that under the circumstances, Avid DVD is actually doing a good job. But, you know how it is. Producer wants me to see if anything can “do better”.
Michael Slowe
December 11, 2010 at 12:05 pm

Computer speed has a huge influence. I noticed a great increase in encode speed when I upgraded to the MacPro 2 x 2.66Ghz Quad Core although part of that might be the better versions of my encoder, BitVice. I find this to be the best there is (tell me a better one). What is the big rush for your Producer Sean, quality first surely?

Michael Slowe
Sean Marks
December 11, 2010 at 12:29 pm

I wish it were so. I work rather methodically to ensure no mistakes are made. In reality television, I’m finding that the producers just want it fast. Whenever someone starts off their sentence with “I just don’t understand why….”, what follows is bound to annoy you.

Thanks for your reply. Does Avid DVD take advantage of all cores?
Daniel Ludwig
December 12, 2010 at 9:59 am

Hi Sean,
I won´t think so – Avid DVD Authoring is nothing more than DVDitHD from Sonic under licence.

I´ve seen, it´s not a good authoring-tool, nor for DVD neither for BD. if you need to create a bit more complex DVD you should use another authoring-tool.

to use an 4 or 8core gives you a lot encoding-power, I´ve seen sonic cinevision doing nearly 50 x realtime on a 2.88Ghz 8core mac pro, that was fantstic.

even Mainconcept Reference can to 25-40 x realtime for SD. give it a try. you can download the demo-version from MC-website with watermark. and sonic cinevision is using MCs source-code for the encoder-engine.

cheers

danny
William Quibell
December 14, 2010 at 2:09 am

If you don’t mind I would like to piggy back your thread….

I need to burn basic DVDs fast. They will only be 4 clips in SD. An intro clip (always same), and then 3 other clip for maybe a total of 20~ minutes of footage.

Is there a noticeable encoding speed difference between between iDVD vs. Toast for example? Or is DVD Studio Pro or AvidDVD faster then the rest?

I will be using a Mac Pro 8core.

Or am I splitting hairs worrying about this?

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