Marty Hudzik
May 22nd, 2010, 11:31 PM
I just recently updated from Prospect HD to NEO HD for CS5 compatibility. The first project I am working on is an HDV project shot on a Canon XLh1 in 24p mode and a Canon HV20 in 24P mode. As you know the HV20 embeds the 24P into a 29.97 stream. So, my intention is to use HDlink to convert these files to true 24P avis. I have done this with previous versons but it has been a while however I am certain I have never seen conversion times like these before.
The first tape was 36 minutes long. I tried capturing and converting in realtime but when the 36 minute capture time was done, HDlink took an additional 2.5 hours to finish encoding the clip to Cineform. This is on a Windows 7 64bit machine with 8gig of Ram and a Core i7 processor. All 8 cores are darn near maxed with a CPU utilization of 80-95% at all times. When this finished, I loaded a 33 minute XLH1 24P mpg and started the conversion there, thinking that the removal of duplicate frames had caused the delay.
Well, let me tell you as I type this HDlink is just reaching the 2/3 mark on the progress bar and it has been 2 hours. This is for a 33 minute clip. Now....I can only say this for certain...nearly 4 years ago I was using aspect HD on a Pentium 4 single core machine with 1gig of Ram and when I would finish capturing a 1 hour tape, it would only need an extra 10 minutes to finish encoding to cineform. that's just a tad longer than realtime. At my office I had a dual core xeon that would encode in realtime. When the capture was done, HDlink would spit out a finished Cineform file almost instantly.
So how is it that NEO HD is taking 2-3 hours to convert a 33minute HDV clip? Something surely is wrong here....right?
Thanks in advance. I will install this on my Core 2 Quad and see if it is any better.
The first tape was 36 minutes long. I tried capturing and converting in realtime but when the 36 minute capture time was done, HDlink took an additional 2.5 hours to finish encoding the clip to Cineform. This is on a Windows 7 64bit machine with 8gig of Ram and a Core i7 processor. All 8 cores are darn near maxed with a CPU utilization of 80-95% at all times. When this finished, I loaded a 33 minute XLH1 24P mpg and started the conversion there, thinking that the removal of duplicate frames had caused the delay.
Well, let me tell you as I type this HDlink is just reaching the 2/3 mark on the progress bar and it has been 2 hours. This is for a 33 minute clip. Now....I can only say this for certain...nearly 4 years ago I was using aspect HD on a Pentium 4 single core machine with 1gig of Ram and when I would finish capturing a 1 hour tape, it would only need an extra 10 minutes to finish encoding to cineform. that's just a tad longer than realtime. At my office I had a dual core xeon that would encode in realtime. When the capture was done, HDlink would spit out a finished Cineform file almost instantly.
So how is it that NEO HD is taking 2-3 hours to convert a 33minute HDV clip? Something surely is wrong here....right?
Thanks in advance. I will install this on my Core 2 Quad and see if it is any better.