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DVD Studio Pro 3 question
I have posted this over on the dvd forum, but you guys just dance a little faster..
Basically on a Dual Gig G4, should a 2 hour 6 minute movie estimate over 300 hours (QT conversion to mpeg2 in FCP)/??
I am used to doing 30 minute Targa based FCP to iDVDs for my TV spot clients, iDVD has always been quick and easy.
I have a 2 hour 6 minute FCP movie to take to DVD. I have tried Targa YUV and DVCPro 50 FCP export to DVDStudio Pro. THe build Burn starts just fine, then a couple hours later it is hanging on a frame / locked up I think.. The image does not change on the ntsc monitor. I am trying again Quiktime to mpeg2 encode.
Any ideas what is wrong. How long should it take to encode a 2 hour movie? What are the best settings? What is the best format to start with. I am sure my computer meets the monimum specs.
G4 dual gig / 1.5gig ram / Medea RTRX raid / Atto ul3d card / Cinewave RT./ DVD pro 3
Should I upgrade to DVD Pro 4? Bit Vice? Or is DVD encoding of a 2 hour movie usually take a couple days to complete??
IT really acts like a data thru-put problem.. Maybe / any ideas?
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10 Replies
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Don’t pay attention to the estimate. It only bases its info on what it’s calculating at any given second, so if it’s hitting a tough spot it will base the whole estimate on that.
Also, not sure how fast you need it to go, but you can do single pass instead of double and constant bit rate instead of variable.
HTH
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Yes I realize there are all those setting. I prefer the dual pass variable. But does anybody have experience with 2hour encodes and would remember how long I can expect to wait for it to encode.
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I have done some feature length encodes from FCP to DVDSP.. I however use compressor to make the mpeg-2. for a 1hour programme it can take me 3hours’ish on my 17″ 2.16MBP 2gigRam If I export using compressor straight from FCP (I am told compressor re-renders the entire project.. thus eats up time..) It takes far less time if i first export a quicktime reference movie,, then open compressor and import the reference movie.
Colin McQuillan
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** DVNTSC source to 2pass mpeg2 90min best settings for SD NTSC project.
Colin McQuillan
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Does your FCP time-line play correctly?
Complete render?Cheers
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yes,
The timeline plays sweet thru the Cinewave Card ntsc out
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What are your current sequence settings? If everything is rendered and playing in fcp you should just export using compressor and try best quality 150 minutes in the settings. It sounds like you are changing your video setting too as well as encoding to mpeg-2.
What is your proccessor speed in your G4? DSP4 will barely run on G4’s but I don’t remember about ver.3, I went from 2 to 4 but I know 4 would barely run on my dual 450 G4. I only use compressor for short projects but it is never that slow on my dual 2ghz G5. I use a hardware encoder and finish in DSP.
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I have a Dual Gig G4..
LAst night, I installed a new Hard drive, loaded the latest Tiger with updates and the latest FCP 5.1.4 and even the latest Cinewave RT 4.7 (still can’t get the RT Key to work) but
In DVD Studio #4 the 2 hour movie is 1t 59% done which is over half again as much as DVD #3 would get to before it crashed… And you can see it cranking away…
Either DVD #3 was seriously corrupted or something was bad maybe early OS X..
But it seems to be working like I would expect right now, 2 pass variable rate..
But, But … this is only the first try with new updated software and it ain’t done yet…(it probably just crashed) I ‘m not looking, don’t wanta know,,,, just another ten minutes of everything working optimism please…. ;-0
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[edit] “Yes I realize there are all those setting. I prefer the dual pass variable. But does anybody have experience with 2hour encodes and would remember how long I can expect to wait for it to encode.”
Well, then SAY THAT in your original post so I don’t waste my freakin time trying to help you.
I have lots of experience with long encodes and never have crashes or any problems. But you’re obviously not interested in that…just some magic recipe.
Good luck with that.
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BTW, why don’t you post this in the DVDSP forum? This is an FCP forum, if you haven’t noticed.
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