[MacDV] Re: VCD encoding speed

[Rick Gordon]

Yes, but its also smaller (in screen size) and lower quality.
Reading through the latest Toast docs, they say to expect 10 minutes of 
compression for each minute of video, so at approx 6.5m I guess I 
shouldn't complain - but it didn't seem to take this long with earlier 
versions.
Guess I'll try to put together a test to tell for sure.
(I also recently added a Sonnet ATA133 controller and a 200GB drive to 
that so I was wondering if something else might have been going on.)

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 10:13  PM, Erica Sadun wrote:

>> I've been dual-booting between 10.1 and 10.2 for awhile now, but 
>> using 10.1 for burning VCDs with.
>> My 10.1 system was held at QT5 and Toast 5.1.2
>> Today I finally updated Toast to v5.2.1, and burned a VCD with it on 
>> OSX 10.2 with QT6 installed.
>> It took 3+ hours for each 28 minute movie (a DV stream created by 
>> FCP) on a G4/733. plenty of disk space.
>> With previous versions it was slow, but not this slow! Hell, encoding 
>> a DVD is faster than this now!
>
> MPEG-1 is more highly compressed so takes more time to compute
> than MPEG-2 compression.
>
> -- Erica