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How long should it take to burn a DVD using the “share” option?
Hey guys, after endless walls with FCP7 and my MTS files, I have downloaded the FCPX trail. I was able to import the MTS files just fine and got them all onto one timeline. Then I simply hit “share” and since I am in the trail version I was not able to send it to Compressor without buying compressor- so I chose DVD instead.
Now, there are 7 clips of MTS files that are roughly 20-25 minutes per clip and totaling 8GB of HD footage. The “burning” process has not moved in quite some time now… The time on the media share window shows a working time of 4 hours and 50 minutes (and counting). Do you guys feel this is correct since it is 8GB of footage or should it be going faster?I am tempted to use Pavtube to convert the MTS files into one lump ProRes file and just go back to FCP7, but after “memory full” and “general error” dialogue boxes, I just don’t know that FCP7 is worth the time to revisit.
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You’ll probably want to tell us what system you’re doing the compression on. The RAM, CPU and GPU available make a difference to compression time, as does whether or not the media was optimised before you output the timeline.
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Well, by my rough calculations, you’re asking the software to calculate, transcode and render somewhere around 230,000 frames.
I think this is a situation where quite a bit of patience will be required if “brute force” computational horsepower isn’t available.
FWIW.
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All I can say is the new compressor kicks some serious butt on the few tests I’ve given it. I recently exported a 2min SD ProRes 422 video as a standalone quicktime. I rendered it to mpeg2 in the old compressor using all my imac processors in a quick cluster situation and it was 58 sec. Not bad.
So then I threw the same file in the new compressor (which doesn’t do clusters – supposedly the same function is just built in) and it rendered it to mpeg2 in 15 seconds. Wow.
But that was SD to SD. If you’re throwing downconversion at it, then it should take a really long time. After Effects on my system downscales from HD to SD in roughly 1 1/3 real time.
So for 4 hours of HD it would probably take me 6-7 hours to make mpeg 2s. So 4.5 hours to share to DVD from HD for your 2.5 hours of media sounds pretty legit.
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