Posted by Vernon on 12/23/92 11:26

I am in the process of copying some old video cassettes to DVD. I am using
my digital camcorder as middleman, to convert the VHS signals into DV. I am
then importing the DV onto my PC as an AVI file. I then try and clean up the
footage, and make a DVD image. I can then create as many DVDs as I want with
my standard DVD writing software (Nero)

Now I know I could skip the recording to DV if I moved my VCR closer to the
PC, but I am happy with this method. I am fairly happy with the speed of
editing, bearing in mind that I am usually working on 30-40 minutes of
video.

I am using Pinnacle Studio 9 with all the latest patches and it is fairly
stable. PC specs are Intel mainboard, Intel 3.06Ghz P4 with hyperthreading,
1Gb PC1066 RAMBUS ram, C drive is two 80gb drives in a raid array,
configured for speed, video footage is put on a seperate 400Gb drive.
Graphics card is a Geforce 6600GT with 128mb ram. OS is XP Pro.

What I am not happy about is the time it takes to render the final DVD image
(could be hours). How can I speed up this stage of things, is there a
hardware solution that would speed it up?

Many thanks

Vernon

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