On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:24:48 +0100, "Trev"
trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet wrote:


"mb" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:40:03 GMT, Ben Thomas
wrote:

mb wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:10:28 GMT, Ben Thomas
wrote:


Hi all,

I have been trying to turn my MiniDV home videos into DVDs but it takes
many
hours to encode the MPEG for the DVD on my AMD Athlon XP 2700+ with
512MB RAM
and 7200RPM hard disk, using Ulead VideoStudio. It seems to take even
longer to
convert MPEG2 (captured from my digital TV card) into MPEG2 suitable for
DVD.
I'm guessing CPU is the main problem and there aren't many faster CPU
alternatives but please correct me if I'm wrong.

So can I get a PCI card that will do the job for me?

Thanks for any help.

Ben Thomas
Melbourne
Australia


Do yourself a favour. Buy a dvd recorder which does all this in real
time.


Can you create chapters, menus, scene transitions, etc?

It does the chapters automatically.
If you want to do fancy stuff then upload and use dvd author and NO
encoding required because its already encoded.


If you alter it then it will need re-entering.Its the transitions and
effects that take up the time especially noise reduction and colour changes.

DVD author does not re encode it. Go download the trial version and
see for yourself. Been using it for the past couple of years. I use it
to create my own menus or edit out bits of video. No extra encoding is
done.