SLOW DVD editing...Why?

Jackm75

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I am trying to convert old VHS home movies to DVD. I just bought a DVD burner and DVD Xpress. Capturing the video was easy. Viewing it is no problem. Editing is a whole different story. When I try to do anything to it, it takes forever to process. Like when I’m just trying to cut a video into differnt clips moving back or forward a few minutes of video takes a few minutes of real time. At this rate it’ll take me a month to make one DVD! I just installed an additional 512MB of RAM bringing my total to 768MB but that didn’t help at all. I have an Intel Celeron 1.70GHz processor. And I’m running Windows XP. — Does anyone have any information on how to speed things up?

Jackm75

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By the way... I’m using Ulead Video Studio 7 and Ulead DVD Movie Factory which came with DVD Xpress.

Jerad

Guest

Just wanted to let you know that I’m experinecing the same problems. I found your post here while trying to locate solutions online.

Jackm75

Guest

I have started using Nero software to edit my videos. Although I haven’t had time to do much, what I have done is much easier and quicker which makes the whole thing more enjoyable!

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Holy friekin moly! I just installed this proigram since it came with my DVD drive — it looks really nice, but on my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (2Ghz) it spent 10 hours on one DVD, and was only 28% complete!!!!

I am going to download one of the freeware MPEG2 encoders and see if I can use this program to burn those videos — I’ve never ever ever ever seen a program so horrifically slow in my life. And such a shame! The rest of the application was intuitive and fun to use.

I’m reeling - why did they even bother to write the application if a top-of-the-line system isn’t fast enough to use it????

daylite

Guest

I started burning my first DVD with Ulead DVD Movie Factory that came with my Haupppage TVcard.
1 hour movie, 3.1GB.
AMD 2600, 512 MB RAM.
I got this message when I clicked the last OK-button:
“This is going to take some time”
Understatement. After 2 hours it has only made 20%.
This program is not acceptable.
Any suggestions?

Spin Quark

Guest

I am also having a long time to creata one DVD.
I am using a 3Ghz, Pentium IV HT, 1Gb RAM. I could edit and do everything normally but now, when I asked it to burn a DVD it is working for more than 3 hours and only 6% is done (the video final size is 4.3Gb). (Ulead Video Studio 8)

Alexandru

Guest

you should use mjpeg or Huffyuv for capturing and editing, and after all the editing is done you should convert it to mpeg2/dvd

edgardo torres

Guest

hey man use a simple program called sonic my dvd you can capture editing and burn it so fast

Mats

Guest

I use Movie Factor 2 together with my TVR TV-card. I capture the VHS-video tape in to DVD encoded file. If the tape is 60 minutes - it takes 60 minutes to get the file. When the file is in the PC, it´s only to start burning the dvd. Takes about 10-15 minutes. It takes total 1 hour and 15 min to get 60 min VHS-tape on DVD for me. The secret is that you have to save the movie in correct file (same file which burning program use).