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DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby christinagilman » Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:56 pm

Hi all, I really hope someone can help, I'm pulling my hair out here.

I've created a 90 minute video with iMovie and exported the files. iMovie exports in .mov format. Because Mac (in it's wisdom) does not offer any affordable DVD authoring system, I purchased DVD architect Studio. I authored my DVD and went to render and burn the DVD. 4 days and two tries later, the rendering process doesn't seem to work. It will render for about 24 hours before it just stops and gives an error message. It says the estimated time left is 325 hours.

What can I do to fix this problem? The computer I'm using to render and create the files is a brand new (not even a month old) Samsung with Windows 7.

I've tried to find a program to convert the .mov files into mpeg-2, but I've had no luck. I've even tried downloading a trial version of Vegas in order to convert the files, but for some reason Vegas will not work on the Samsung. It just quits before it even opens.

Any ideas?
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby John 'twosheds' McDonald » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:29 am

Hi Christina and welcome to Muvipix. :wcm:

Can you post some info on your computer specs including RAM, CPU, free space on the HDD.

Can you also check that you have the latest version of Quicktime installed.
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby Steve Grisetti » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:27 am

Hi,Christina. Welcome to Muvipix.

But I'm a bit confused.

Doesn't iMovie come bundled with iDVD?

And isn't iMovie a Mac-based editing system? How are you running DVD Architect Studio, an exclusively Windows-based program, on your Mac?

That said, the real question is, What specs did you output your video from iMovie as? It apparently wasn't a DVD-ready format, which is why your transcoding is taking so long and, ultimately, failing.

The trick is to output from your video editing program in a format that's as close as possible to the DVD format. Then DVD Architect Studio will output your DVD in about 10 minutes.
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby christinagilman » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:33 am

Hi there. I'll be able to post my computer stats later today (not by that comp right now).

Steve, to answer your questions: no, iMovie no longer comes with iDVD (very upsetting). I have both a Mac and a PC, so I transferred the files from my Mac to my PC. I run DVD architect on the PC.

iMovie ONLY outputs in .mov format. This is the problem. I'm ultimately trying to find a way to convert my .mov file to a file that will work in DVD architect studio pro.

I'm having a very hard time finding something that will convert .mov files to mpeg-2. This is where I'm at right now...
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby TreeTopsRanch » Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:37 am

Wouldn't Quicktime Pro do that conversion?

You could also use the free Winff which is a frontend for FFMPEG.
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby christinagilman » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:33 pm

Quicktime pro only converts to mpeg-4. Will this file form work for DVD studio architect? If not, is there any other form, besides mpeg-2, that would work to speed up the rendering?
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby John 'twosheds' McDonald » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:19 pm

christinagilman wrote:......is there any other form, besides mpeg-2, that would work to speed up the rendering?

My initial thought was perhaps your slow transcoding may be hardware based which is why I asked for your basic system specs and info on free hard drive space. Once we can eliminate hardware as a potential problem source we can explore other avenues. :-D
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby Chuck Engels » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:25 pm

Doesn't iMovie offer any formats other than MOV when exporting?
As John mentioned, knowing your system specs would also help, nothing should take 300+ hours to render.

Is your goal to produce a DVD? Where is the original footage from and is it standard definition or high definition video?
If you are going to produce a standard definition DVD then possibly exporting to AVI would work better if that is possible.
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby Bob » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:32 pm

The preferred input video codecs to produce a DVD in DVD Architect Studio are DV and MPEG-2 DVD. Ideally, you would want to use MPEG-2 as that is what will be used on the DVD. But, DVD Architect Studio can easily encode the DV input to MPEG-2 and create the DVD.

iMovie can export the movie as DV. In fact, when you send an iMovie movie to iDVD, iMovie generates a DV file during the prep phase and that's what iDVD uses. So, you're doing the same thing with DVD Architect Studio -- it's just not integrated into iMovie.

I'm not a Mac user and not that familiar with iMovie, perhaps Steve or someone here that uses a Mac can give the details on how to export to DV. I believe you have to use the expert settings: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2286.
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby Steve Grisetti » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:57 pm

Try this in iMovie:

1) Select Share/Export Using Quicktime.
2) On the Export option screen, set Export to Movie to DV Stream.
3) On that option screen, click Options and select Preserve Aspect Ratio.

The result will be a DV file, which will work in DVD Architect. It's going to take a while to process, since it's still not a DVD-ready MPEG -- but hopefully you'll have better luck compressing this than you have your other file. (And it should take an hour or two rather than hundreds of hours.)
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby christinagilman » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:13 pm

I've had success! Thank you all for your help. The solution was to download Winff as TreeTopsRanch said. I converted the file to DVD HQ and substituted the .mov files for the converted files which ended up being mpeg-2. The DVD rendered and burned in less than 20 mins.

I'm so very happy and relieved! Thanks again!
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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby Chuck Engels » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:23 am

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Re: DVD rendering at 325 hours

Postby Steve Grisetti » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:45 am

As we always, say, if the folks at Muvipix can't find a solution for you, there may not be one!

Glad to have you aboard, Christina.
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