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Originally posted by Cyrax9
How large are these,a r ethey full-fledged movies or half hour to an hour long TV shows!?!
I try rendering an AVI (M-JPEG from capture) that's roughly 21 Minutes and by the time I fix the darn thing (Deinterlace the VHS Video, remove Watermarks, resize it, and sharpen/soften it) it can take me an entire day!
Please man, share the wealth and tell me how you're rendering so dman quickly! I dont' keep these AVIs on my PC (3GB is way too much to keep around), but I DO burn them to DVD-R using my DMR-HS2, I just want to speed up the time I spend starting at VirtualDub, which can be quite tedious, trust me.
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Yah, I'm doing full length movies ripped from DVD, but this isn't the full time it takes from beginning to end, just for the render into XviD. I'm currently putting together a guide for ripping DVD's in Windows but briefly (for an average 110 min movie)...
Rip VOB's et al to HDD (10 minutes)
Extract the AC3 audio to PCM WAV using DVD2AVI (40 minutes)
Compress the audio to a RIFF-WAV MP3 or ogg with CDEX for loading into virtual dub (20 minutes)
Export the d2v project created with DVD2AVI into a .avi to act as a frameserver for Virtual Dub using the VFAPI reader codec (seconds)
2 pass DivX/XviD render in Virtual Dub resized 576*324 (3 hours)
This'll give me a nice chunky 1.2 GB divx which I can split onto two CD's.
Luckily I have PAL DVD's so I never have to de-interlace, and I've never tried converting a directly captured AVI yet (since I don't have a capture card).
What tricks are there to it? Not alot really.
1. Shut down all non-essential services and apps
2. Hack your registry so that windoze uses all the RAM you have instead of swapping when you have 400 MB free
3. Run it all off a SCSI disk - stupidly fast random access and sustained transfers (plus none of that mucking about with software RAID)
4. You can save yourself a bit of time and space by setting your max keyframe interval really large, this way the codec'll only put a keyframe in where you need it.
If you want to use renderfarm support, you can try
Vidomi - it's mainly based on Virtual Dub. I used it at first due to the renderfarm support, but have since used Virtual Dub more and more since I think it's better.