I too am curious about an answer- yet, this was posted 2 years ago! Guess not the place for a cyberlink help. I have Director 12, made a huge 1 hour video, hit produce and it literally takes 1 hour to do 1% ! wow! 100 hours! Is this normal?!?!

As a general rule of thumb:
A single layer DVD is about one hour. (4.7 GB).

A Double layer DVD is about two hours. (8.5 GB).

The reason for those rules is the fact that a Standard DVD is encoded MPEG-2 720x480/576 at 8.3 Mbps. So that is the amount of time that fits on those size disks.

You can reduce the quality (lower bit rate) of the DVD and fit more on the disk, but you really do not want to do that. The quality is very bad.

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.

Quote: I too am curious a iout hour answer- yet, this was posted 2 years ago! Guess not the place for a cyberlink help. I have Director 12, made a huge 1 hour video, hit produce and it literally takes 1 hour to do 1% ! wow! 100 hours! Is this normal?!?!

Depends mostly on the power of your computer.

Weak computer takes much longer to encode video.

With a good fast computer designed for Video Editing, it takes about an equal length of time as the playing time of the Video.
A one hour DVD may take an hour to produce.



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.

I have a pentium i7-36322QM CPU @2.20 Ghz- HP ENVY m4-- should it be taking 100 hours to PRODUCE/RENDER a 1 hour 184 mb video?

Quote: I have a pentium i7-36322QM CPU @2.20 Ghz- HP ENVY m4-- should it be taking 100 hours to PRODUCE/RENDER a 1 hour 184 mb video?

Please provide the requested Diagnostic that was asked for in this thread.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/39103.page

But to answer your question, no it should not take that long. Unless you have done something strange. You may be asking the computer to do more than it is capable of doing.

There is something wrong. Anything I say would be a guess.
No information about what you have done.

Part B, Part D (please Read) Click the link to read Part D
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/29701.page

If the file size from the source is 4.7 Gb, and you're trying to render it for your own use, might I suggest you render it as a DVD SP, rather than DVD HQ. The picture quality really doesn't degrade as bad as Carl312 would suggest, though at lower levels(like DVD LP) Carl312's comment is quite valid(pixelation problems plague programme playback... PPPPP!) At DVD SP, you'll notice a considerable drop in the file size as well, much the better for archiving on a good-size external hard-drive. Actually, DVD SP video is quite sharp and clear! With HQ you really don't gain a noticeable picture quality improvement(at least not in my experience) but you do lose disc capacity. DVD SP is a happy medium! Good image quality plus the ability to put upwards of 2 hours and 20 minutes worth of content onto a standard single-layer DVD5 disc. As for home-burned dual-layer(DVD9) discs, I found them unplayable on domestic DVD players, while the same player will happily play a commercially-made dual-layer disc. Guess the best use for DL discs is archiving files(of any type).

Thank you for the tips.... I am not yet at the point of burning the DVD--I did learn that DVD's come in different sizes, so made sure to get the 4.7 GB. I usually also record in SLP? so... when I go to "burn" I guess there is a setting for that there???

I had a great suggestion to stop the redention process (now at 49hours/49%)- and do some upgrades/diagnostic... I decided to continue with this and see where it takes me. I have some other large projects (one being a sons wedding) I am working on, but will certainly sample a smaller project to see its time to produce. Perhaps I just overloaded the computer? It is not humming, and it does seem to have RAM? left to do other things on the same computer....so not overtaxing. My P3 was overtaxed, overheated, and was never the same computer after a large PD project!

However, I used "magic" using this computer and PD 10 the it did crash at 94%...so lets hope it does not do the same under the regular redention!

Your computer should not be taking that long. Looks like your weak link may be the graphics card. Did you apply any enhancements before producing? That can greatly slow the process. __________________________________
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Thank you for the reply! Hour 55, 55% complete. I did mega enhancements to the intensive video and jpegs compilations! I did not know what to do with the video card? First time user here.

Sounds like enhancements are slowing it down. Don't worry about the video card for now. __________________________________
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