Hey Guys,

My boss is trying to increase the speed of our DVD burning. Most videos are under 1 hour. But we had 1hour 30 min a video that was cut and exported in Imovie.

The exporting alone took over an 1hour 15 min itself.

Now the using Visual hub software the DVD encode + burn took a whopping 1 hour 45/50 min???????

I have suggested more RAM to him....but I need to bring more to the table if i can. Is there another encoding program that might be better.

Any suggestions please would be great.

Systems:

IMAC 10.7.3 OS Lion
4 Gb of RAM

IMAC 10.6.8 OS Leopard
4Gb of RAM

software:
Visual Hub
Toast 10

More RAM isn't going to make a lick of difference. Video encoding uses CPU, unless you can find a program that will use the hardware acceleration built into many computers.

You're not giving us much information on the computers - what are the processors in each?

Oh yes my bad....

The processors are:

-27" Imac 3.1Ghz intel i5
-the older 21' imac is 3.06 Ghz Intel core Duo 2

But i'm sure a little more ram is gonna hurt either. thanks!

It has been awhile since I last used VisualHub but does that software utilize all the cores available to it like HandBrake does? Also VisualHub recently got an update (well a patch I think)...are you running the latest versions?

Try Handbrake for the video conversion - it's multicore aware, and I'm pretty sure that VisualHub isn't, or at least not optimized for it.

I second the hand break suggestion, being multicore aware makes a bit difference.

There are a lot of variables here, such as the size and format of the original file. I don't follow why you are using another programme before turning it over to Toast. Toast will handle both the file encode and the burning of the disk.

OK thanks for all of your suggestions.
I'm gonna most likely try Handbrake......

As long as I can i do mpeg encoding to CD-R I'm all for it

AFAIK handbrake doesn't have support for burning DVDs or creating the tree format to create them.

I just got an iMac i5 2.3ghz and I was hoping for quicker than realtime conversion. Toast seems to be ok however not entirely sure if it supports multi core.