[michelin]

Well I have a G4 400 PCI and is taking me 7 hours to export a 45 minutes clip to Toast 5 to create a VCD. Am I doing something wrong that it takes me that long?
Anybody else is taking that long, post your times.

Thanks

[sailor41]

That is normal.
Toast and your Mac is encoding the imovie file to mpeg1.
After encoding is complete burning time is minimal ~5minutes.

Let know how the burn and playback go.
I have had minamal success.

[lucylawless]

That sounds a little long

I had a 20 minute quicktime movie (about 2.8 GB)
I exported it from QT 4.1 using Toast 5's mpeg encoder
on my Pismo G3 400 MHz it took almost exactly 5 hours
on my Ti G4 400 MHz it took almost exactly 2.5 hours

I have to assume that iMovie's DV streams, or whatever it uses, are less compressed than my quicktime movie source file, and therefore they would be easier to compress (into a different codec--mpeg1), so your time should be less than 5.6 hours, but there are a lot of assumptions there....

[ddiokno]

Originally posted by michelin:
Well I have a G4 400 PCI and is taking me 7 hours to export a 45 minutes clip to Toast 5 to create a VCD. Am I doing something wrong that it takes me that long?
Anybody else is taking that long, post your times.
Thanks

That sounds like you are in the right ballpark... on a G4 Cube 450, it took roughly 460 minutes to encode 72 minutes of video to VCD for toast.... (just let it run over night).
good luck
dave


[This message has been edited by ddiokno (edited 04-11-2001).]

[michelin]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Im going to try save the movie to quicktime DV format and then from quicktime export it as mpeg 1 to see if that route I can get any time improvement.

About the quality of the VCDs I have to say that it all depends on the video source, I have made VCDs from analog source (from old 8mm Sony) and I get a lot more quality when using video from my Sony TRv 103 8mm Digital.