Video CD Creation Question

[Gurm]

Hi Folks,

I don't post in here much. A friend has a reasonable machine (Celeron 600, 256MB RAM, 30GB U100 drive), with a Firewire card and a Sony Digicam. Premiere 6 lets him edit his stuff.

But converting to Mpeg takes... like... 12 hours for a 45 minute mpeg.

We just wanna go from the standard avi stream to a VCD... any ideas as to programs to do this quicker?

Even Ulead Videostudio 3 LE (which came with the camera kit) does it in under 10 hours, whereas Premiere's built-in plugin takes 19. Ouch!

- Gurm

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[Dr Mordrid]

Quicker usually means lower quality as well. For VCD I usually frameserve from Premiere's timeline to TMPGEnc 12b using the AVISynth fileserving software. This delivers great quality but is, however, only slightly faster than what you're doing. Quality takes time.

Dr. Mordrid

[Gurm]

Yeah well, time isn't the problem. The problem is we're getting neither quality NOR speed. Hehe.

I'll give that a try. But the site for TMPGEnc is down, and where do I get AVISynth?

- Gurm

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[elfredo]

try these:

http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth.html

http://www.jamsoft.com/tmpgenc/

Frisch