Encoding Times "Smart Encoding" v Not Smart

[George Tyndall]

I've noted that Nero takes many times longer to "Smart Encode" a 1-hour Blu-ray than PRE7 which, I understand, compresses rather than "smart encode."

Is that to be expected?

[Paul LS]

With smart-rendering it should be done in seconds. NERO will tell you in the export settings window before you export if it is smart-rendering the video, the audio, both or none.

[RJ Johnston]

You have me worried, George. Premiere Elements doesn't smart render anything for output to a Blu-ray disc (BD). Nero will smart render Mpeg-2 Blu-ray but not AVCHD Blu-ray for output to a BD. Your camcorder is an AVCHD camcorder, isn't it, so the video from that will not be smart rendered in Nero. Nero may take longer to render AVCHD than Premiere Elements, but neither will smart render a AVCHD for output to a BD.

[George Tyndall]

With smart-rendering it should be done in seconds. NERO will tell you in the export settings window before you export if it is smart-rendering the video, the audio, both or none.

If memory serves, Nero informed me that both the audio and the video would be "smart rendered."

[George Tyndall]

You have me worried, George. Premiere Elements doesn't smart render anything for output to a Blu-ray disc (BD). Nero will smart render Mpeg-2 Blu-ray but not AVCHD Blu-ray for output to a BD. Your camcorder is an AVCHD camcorder, isn't it, so the video from that will not be smart rendered in Nero. Nero may take longer to render AVCHD than Premiere Elements, but neither will smart render a AVCHD for output to a BD.

My camcorder is a Canon HV 30 giving me m2t output that is "native" (does not need rendering) on the PRE7 Timeline. Of course, after editing/ adding transitions, etc., the red line appears but the Timeline usually continues to play smoothly, so I don't usually render the Timeline before exporting.

If I export to either a SD DVD or I burn to SD folder, the output is extremely fast, but if I output to Blu-ray, the burn is slower, however, not nearly as slow as Nero, which needed over 6 hours to burn to Blu-ray a 1-hour Nero Timeline consisting of ten 5-minute MPEG2 movies (each of which I had previously created with PRE7).