Bill Vincent
October 18th, 2009, 06:35 PM
I'm just wondering how long on average it takes for you to encode Final Cut Pro sequences to MPEG2 DVD format, on average for a 1.5 hour (average wedding) DVD project.
I feel like it's taking me way longer than it should take, although I know lots of factors play into this. I'm looking for average numbers - 8 hours? 20 hours? 40 hours? Do you compress using 2-pass encoding and highest quality, or something a bit less? Do you offload to another machine for your rendering to leave your main machine free to edit?
For example, I'm exporting a Ceremony (18 min.) using FCP export to Compressor, and using the 150 min. DVD 2-pass compression template to spit out the video and Dolby Digital files needed for the DVD. It's telling me 5 hours to compress. I don't think it will take quite that long, but probably 3 if I'm lucky the way it's going. That seems way long to me.
Anyway, examples, workflows, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
BTW, I'm using a Macbook Pro 2.5 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and latest versions of everything in FCP3. And, it is taking longer than three hours. It's been baking for 2.5 hours and is just over halfway now. For 18 minutes? I know I'm using fairly high quality Compressor settings, but is this normal?? Anyone?
Thanks!
I feel like it's taking me way longer than it should take, although I know lots of factors play into this. I'm looking for average numbers - 8 hours? 20 hours? 40 hours? Do you compress using 2-pass encoding and highest quality, or something a bit less? Do you offload to another machine for your rendering to leave your main machine free to edit?
For example, I'm exporting a Ceremony (18 min.) using FCP export to Compressor, and using the 150 min. DVD 2-pass compression template to spit out the video and Dolby Digital files needed for the DVD. It's telling me 5 hours to compress. I don't think it will take quite that long, but probably 3 if I'm lucky the way it's going. That seems way long to me.
Anyway, examples, workflows, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
BTW, I'm using a Macbook Pro 2.5 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and latest versions of everything in FCP3. And, it is taking longer than three hours. It's been baking for 2.5 hours and is just over halfway now. For 18 minutes? I know I'm using fairly high quality Compressor settings, but is this normal?? Anyone?
Thanks!