[MacDV] How long does it take you to encode........

[Granville Kennedy]

I've had the same problem!  I started an "export to QuickTime" to make 
VCD's of a 41 minute iMovie early Saturday afternoon.  My dual867 
crunched that thing the rest of the day and didn't finish up til almost 
7:30 AM Sunday.  The only thing I can figure is that I didn't give the 
Classic startup app a chance to finish booting classic and that messed 
things up.  I've since turned the da*% thing off, put the CPU monitor 
in the dock to see just how my processors are up to...  At least I can 
still check mail and surf the web etc. while the export is going on in 
the background.  I suspect that the screen saver kicking in caused 
problems.  Since I use 60 minute DV tapes, I've set the delay on the 
screen saver to 1 hour, since iMovie stops importing clips from the 
DVcam when it kicks in.

BTW - while browsing through the Apple website I found myself looking 
into the Apple education pages.  Since our Elementary school 
participates in the "Apples for Students" program, we can, as parents 
of children attending that school, buy two items per year at the 
discounted prices.

I can see getting for myself FCP for $300, and a ShuttlePro mouse... 
though I may have to actually talk to my wife and justify the 
expenditure :-)

Still having problems getting stuff to completely download, so no PGP 
for Mail.app yet!

"Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't..." Old Chief/medicine 
man to Dustin Hoffman  in "Little Big Man".

Later,
		Joey.

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 03:26  PM, Dennis A. Amith [kndy] 
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm currently at this moment making a 40 minute VCD via exporting it 
> from
> imovie to Quicktime and at first it said it would take 123 minutes to 
> encode
> and now it's up to 153 minutes.   Is this normal?  About 4-5 minutes, 
> export
> takes about 20 minutes, 10 minutes-export takes about 30-35 minutes.
>
> I have a G4 700mhz, 1.5GB RAM and doing this on a 7200 RPM drive (the
> project is located on this drive and I'm exporting the video on this 
> same
> drive).
>
> I'm curious if I purchase this pyro firewire casing and another 7200 
> RPM
> drive and use this drive to export, by how many minutes would I be 
> saving in
> the export?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> daa
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