Is it supposed to take this long?

[FriedApple]

I have a 35 min video that is MP-4/AAC and 640x480 that I want to convert to flv. I am using Quicktime Pro with high quality settings for the output.

My system is a MacBook Pro 17" 2.16 Core Duo with 2 gigs of ram.

Estimated time remaining is over 3 hours.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to make it faster? It seems this is always a problem when i am converting any video at all... ever... even with my old G5.

Mark

 

[Mydriasis]

Encoding video takes long!

Animations even longer, the average frame in the movie Toy Story (i.e. 1/24 of a second) took 6 hours to render and some of the more complicated ones up to 90 hours. And they were not using the average joe computer.

So to sum it up, 3 hours for 35 min of video is not much at all.

 

[Trogloxene]

Yea, I normally run these on my machine after I go to bed at night.

-T

 

[faustfire]

Encoding video takes long!

Animations even longer, the average frame in the movie Toy Story (i.e. 1/24 of a second) took 6 hours to render and some of the more complicated ones up to 90 hours. And they were not using the average joe computer.

So to sum it up, 3 hours for 35 min of video is not much at all.

3D animations are rendered not encoded. Totally different things.

 

[Mydriasis]

3D animations are rendered not encoded. Totally different things.

Which is why I said rendered when referring to animations, read carefully buddy.

 

[zioxide]

3D animations are rendered not encoded. Totally different things.

Yes but when making animated movies, they have to render the 3d animations and then encode it.

 

[faustfire]

Which is why I said rendered when referring to animations, read carefully buddy.

But you compare rendering 3d animations to encoding video like they are the same thing.

Apples and oranges, buddy.