I've jsut bought myself a Dazzle Hybrid Analogue/Digital Decoder and it
comes with Pinnacle Studio 10 SmartStart. I've been experimenting with
recording a programme and then editing out the commercials.

But the time taken to render the finished project is very slow: a 45-minute
project has taken about 2 hours and it's still not quite finished. It's the
"Processing frame m of n" stage which is slow.

I captured as "DVD" format of MPG (*), as opposed to DVD Long Play, or as
any other file format, and I'm rendering at 100% quality, without any
compression to make it fit onto the DVD.

I've set the rendering and VIDEO_TS folders to be on an external USB2 disk
(and it *is* running at USB2 speed!) so as to lighten the load on the system
disk.

The PC is a Pentium 4 3 GHz with 512 MB RAM.


How long *should* rendering take, typically?



* Using the Pinnacle TV Centre Pro softwa it says that this is the best
format to use if you are later burning to DVD - presumably because it
requires least post-procesing during rendering.