Since I have a bit of a break between DVD jobs and moving, I thought I would spend some time working on ROX season one.¬ I have all of the video on my computer, ready to go.¬ The problem is the sheer amount of episodes in season one, it’s staggering.¬ I’m trying to fit 20 episodes on 4 discs.¬ If they were all the same length, it would be easier.¬ My “corporate sponsors” have¬provided me with QuickTime Pro which has helped.¬ I have found that .mov files have more flexibility than MPEG’s do, which is what the DVD format is comprised of.
I have started testing my newfound capabilities, but to my concern it is taking 6 hours every night just to encode the files.¬ This is just testing mind you.¬ The only thing I know of that would help would be a dual core processor and a memory upgrade, but that’s not cheap.¬ My “corporate sponsors” have informed me if I need anything to enable me to perform this task better, to just ask.¬ This is just such a big amount that I would rather not.
It’s not like I need the computer for other things at the moment, it’s just frustrating.
Yeah, crunching big video files does take a while. I’m not sure how much of a difference an upgrade would really make, but don’t be shy about asking for funds!
Once all my testing is complete, and I know exactly what I need to do, and how much time it will take, I might ask. My computer works fine for the jobs I do for my business, ROX just seems to take it over the edge, so to speak. A compatible dual core processor is around $850, ram is around $100, labor is free of course 🙂 I just don’t like feeling like a beggar, I think u can understand that B.
A dual core would help significantly, I can tell the speed is not the limiting factor, it’s the bandwidth. I don’t have a degree in computer science, but theoretically a dual core with the same speed would cut the speed of rendering by nearly half. Wouldn’t you think?