Anyway To Speed Up Movie Encoding?

[Lee]

I was just wondering if anyone knew any tried and trusted methods to speed up movie encoding timeframes?

Right now, i have 300 movie scenes that i have been encoding for the last 3 hours and its only actually encoded 4 of them LOL

Is it just a matter of waiting until the watch folder is finished or is there a method to speed up the encoding times that i dont know about?

Im using Sorenson right now.

Regards,

Lee

[Becky]

I have 2 suggestions but neither are very practical. Use a high quality computer with lots of processing speed and RAM and when the movies are encoding, don't do anything else on the computer. Also, make sure that you kill all the processes you can on the encoding machine so it only really has to "concentrate" on the encoding.

[Lee]

I have 2 suggestions but neither are very practical. Use a high quality computer with lots of processing speed and RAM and when the movies are encoding, don't do anything else on the computer. Also, make sure that you kill all the processes you can on the encoding machine so it only really has to "concentrate" on the encoding.

Well right now its on a dedicated duel processor machine with enough RAM to power the Pentagon LOL

Im going to check out the other processes running now, didnt think of that thanks

Regards,

Lee

[gaybucks_chip]

Lee,

Depending on the length of the clips, an hour per clip isn't out of the range for a 15-20 min clip if you're doing two-pass encoding. The only practical way to speed it up is to use multiple machines

We have three machines that we have available for encoding when we get in a crunch, and one that is dedicated near full time. That seems to work pretty well for our workflow.

Hope that helps.

[fabianb]

Buy a seperate special plug-in card for this.
They are available widely on the market and speed up the process 5-fold.
Works out to be more economic then buying another pc (or two)

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[sockstars]

Sorenson have brought out a new paid upgrade, speeds up by x3 for encoding.

socks

[gaybucks_chip]

Buy a seperate special plug-in card for this.
They are available widely on the market and speed up the process 5-fold.
Works out to be more economic then buying another pc (or two)

->

I haven't seen a hardware encoder card that will speed up encoding for Windows Media, and I've tried to keep an eye out... if you know of one I would LOVE to know about it!!

[DEVELISH]

I saw the new threefold in encoding speed on the sorenson site as well - does anybody have experience with it yet?

DEV

[Titanmen]

The only way to increase the encoding rate for WMV is using an add-on encoding card. We use the ones from Digital Rapids. They are not cheap, but if you have a lot of content you need to turn around quickly they are worth it. You can see them at

http://www.digital-rapids.com/Produc...RC-Stream.aspx

You can encode multiple bit-rate files all at the same time and can get 3x to 15x encoding rates based on the card you buy.

[Jasun]

Not really any way of doing it other than multiple machines.

but it also depends on your source material.

If you're capturing AV files with Sorensen, it will be faster than encoding files that were ripped off DVDs.