Slow CD burning

[Guest]

I spent about a week editing a movie I shot with the help of my camcorder on
Movie Maker 2. The movie is quite long and even after editing, goes for about
1 hour 10 minutes. When I put a blank CD in and started burning, why did it
say that it is going to take approx. 230 minutes to finish the job? I accept
the fact that the movie is long, but why almost 4 hours? Any suggestions to
that?

Thanks,
Sarang

 

[decoder]

I spent about a week editing a movie I shot with the help of my camcorder
on
Movie Maker 2. The movie is quite long and even after editing, goes for
about
1 hour 10 minutes. When I put a blank CD in and started burning, why did
it
say that it is going to take approx. 230 minutes to finish the job? I
accept
the fact that the movie is long, but why almost 4 hours? Any suggestions
to
that?

Thanks,
Sarang

You're burning to CD?
The length of burning, what authoring software?
The specs and capabilties of your PC?
You fail to mention what format your edited video is?
It has to be transcoded "on the fly" to Mpeg/VCD compliant.
With a low spec PC, and a long clip, it is usually more
efficient to "burn" an image to a HD folder, then copy to disk.
Why are you not burning to DVD?

 

[Guest]

Yes, I am burning to CD because I don't have a DVD burner, just a CD burner.
I have 320 MB RAM, AMD 3000+ processor and an ATI Radeon graphics card. I
don't think my computer would be a problem. I don't understand what you mean
by the 'format' of my video.


:

You're burning to CD?
The length of burning, what authoring software?
The specs and capabilties of your PC?
You fail to mention what format your edited video is?
It has to be transcoded "on the fly" to Mpeg/VCD compliant.
With a low spec PC, and a long clip, it is usually more efficient to "burn"
an image to a HD folder, then copy to disk. Why are you not burning to DVD?

 

[decoder]

Yes, I am burning to CD because I don't have a DVD burner, just a CD
burner.
I have 320 MB RAM, AMD 3000+ processor and an ATI Radeon graphics card. I
don't think my computer would be a problem. I don't understand what you
mean
by the 'format' of my video.

The source files format: WMV? DV-AVI?
As you're burning to VCD, your burning software
would prefer the source files to be mpeg1, if not
and one of the above formats, then it will have
to transcode "on-the-fly" from one of the above
formats to mpeg1 then to disk.
Burning/authoring software?
If Nero, I've found it takes longest with WMV.

 

[Wojo]

The source files format: WMV? DV-AVI?
As you're burning to VCD, your burning software
would prefer the source files to be mpeg1, if not
and one of the above formats, then it will have
to transcode "on-the-fly" from one of the above
formats to mpeg1 then to disk.
Burning/authoring software?
If Nero, I've found it takes longest with WMV.

Hi Sarang
Are you just burning from Movie Maker to CD by clicking the "Save to CD"
option?
If you are there are a few things you should know.

1) Your CD is not a VCD and will not play in a DVD Player.
(If you want it to play in a DVD Player you need an authoring program to
create a VCD.)

2) It is taking a long time because Movie Maker needs to render your movie
to a temporary place on the harddrive and then burn it to the CD.
(You would be better off saving it to your computer then going from thee to
the CD.)

3) If there is a problem with your project and you save directly to CD it
seems that by the time Movie Maker discovers the problem it is too late and
you have a drink coaster that was once a blank CD.

The best practice is to save the movie to your harddrive and then do one of
two things.
-If you want a CD that plays in a DVD Player (in otherwords a VCD) then
download a DVD Authoring program and use it to create a VCD. Information
about this is on my website.
-If you just want a video file on a CD that plays on your computer then use
Windows Explorer and drag the file to the CDWriter drive and click "Burn
these files to CD" from that drive.

Hope that sums it up for you.

 

[decoder]

Hi Sarang
Are you just burning from Movie Maker to CD by clicking the "Save to CD"
option?
If you are there are a few things you should know.

1) Your CD is not a VCD and will not play in a DVD Player.
(If you want it to play in a DVD Player you need an authoring program to
create a VCD.)

2) It is taking a long time because Movie Maker needs to render your movie
to a temporary place on the harddrive and then burn it to the CD.
(You would be better off saving it to your computer then going from thee
to the CD.)

3) If there is a problem with your project and you save directly to CD it
seems that by the time Movie Maker discovers the problem it is too late
and you have a drink coaster that was once a blank CD.

The best practice is to save the movie to your harddrive and then do one
of two things.
-If you want a CD that plays in a DVD Player (in otherwords a VCD) then
download a DVD Authoring program and use it to create a VCD. Information
about this is on my website.
-If you just want a video file on a CD that plays on your computer then
use Windows Explorer and drag the file to the CDWriter drive and click
"Burn these files to CD" from that drive.

Hope that sums it up for you.

hey Wojo - I knew you'd get it right ( I wish I had........)

 

[Wojo]

hey Wojo - I knew you'd get it right ( I wish I had........)

C'Mon now decoder you got it right. I just added some detail
-Wojo