Is this something PD9 is good at?

No, it is not.

PD9 does not batch process anything. PD9 is a Video editor, it will import your DV-AVI video one at a time and it can produce any chosen video format, one at a time.

You might check out Cyberlink MediaEspresso. It is one of the Products in the Edit & Convert list.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Thanks Carl - shame really as I have a profile in PD9 with CUDA encoding that produces a great looking file. I did try MediaEspresso but it is so dumbed down you can't even make a 720x576 profile (only 720x480) PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
Sony FX6 - 500Mbps 4k/50p AVC-I HLG
Canon XF400 - 150Mbps 4k/50p AVC
GoPro Hero6 Black
Pana HS700-28Mbps 1080/50p AVC (High@L4.2)
Canon HV20-HDV 25Mbps 16:9 1440x1080/25p MPEG

Quote: Thanks Carl - shame really as I have a profile in PD9 with CUDA encoding that produces a great looking file.

PD does do batch processing, just not of raw video files, you need to create a project pds file for to batch. To me what's most important here is that you have a profile created that gives you the results you want. You really just need to create a simple pds project with the video file in the timeline for each file you want to convert and then batch them off.

File > Batch Produce

Jeff

True - I did have a play with it and even thought about how I could create all the PDS in an automated way.....but I think your plan is the easiest given it is a one off task.
Thanks
Nathan PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
Sony FX6 - 500Mbps 4k/50p AVC-I HLG
Canon XF400 - 150Mbps 4k/50p AVC
GoPro Hero6 Black
Pana HS700-28Mbps 1080/50p AVC (High@L4.2)
Canon HV20-HDV 25Mbps 16:9 1440x1080/25p MPEG

MediaExpresso will do Pal. Its PAL output is in the mpg profiles.

See attachments for details.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

..thanks but I'm going to AVC.

The Batch Produce in PD9 will not be toooo bad but how do you specify what the default "Profile name/Quality" will be (or do you have to manually change this for each entry as it is picking DVD HQ by default so I need to change it to my custom AVC profile).

PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
Sony FX6 - 500Mbps 4k/50p AVC-I HLG
Canon XF400 - 150Mbps 4k/50p AVC
GoPro Hero6 Black
Pana HS700-28Mbps 1080/50p AVC (High@L4.2)
Canon HV20-HDV 25Mbps 16:9 1440x1080/25p MPEG

Done almost 100, with around 100 to go.....You get in a pattern but it does make you go cross eyed!

For those interested, I'm using the following spec to transcode to (it is basically the AVCHD spec) and the results look good (and on my HTPC system AVC can use HW based adaptive deinterlacing so if anything fast motion looks better).

H.264/AVC Custom Profile:
Video
- Resolution = 720x576 (DVD PAL)
- Frame Rate = 25
- Frame Type = Top Field first
- Profile Type = High Profile
- Entropy Coding = CABAC
- Average bitrate = 22500kbps (note: DV is 25000kbps but AVC is much much more effecient so you could drop this rate if you want to save space with little impact on quality as at 22500 this is at the top of the standard)

Audio
- Audio compression = LPCM (same as the original DV) - you could change to DD to save space.


EDIT - These output was produced using GPU settings on an nvidia card. The resultant files were correctly tagged as 4:3 and 16:9 (project aspect ratio was changed) without any cropping. PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
Sony FX6 - 500Mbps 4k/50p AVC-I HLG
Canon XF400 - 150Mbps 4k/50p AVC
GoPro Hero6 Black
Pana HS700-28Mbps 1080/50p AVC (High@L4.2)
Canon HV20-HDV 25Mbps 16:9 1440x1080/25p MPEG

OK - got the final 100 encoding now.

FYI - The reason I'm transcoding is that support of DV on CE devices has never been great and it is now getting rarer. The choice of AVC is simply wider support than MPG going into the future as many of the smaller devices (eg phones, tablets etc) laredy prefer AVC over MPEG2. PD 64 Bit-Win10 64 Bit-32GB RAM-80TB HDD
Sony FX6 - 500Mbps 4k/50p AVC-I HLG
Canon XF400 - 150Mbps 4k/50p AVC
GoPro Hero6 Black
Pana HS700-28Mbps 1080/50p AVC (High@L4.2)
Canon HV20-HDV 25Mbps 16:9 1440x1080/25p MPEG