The Druid wrote:
Thanks for the info already !
I am using SONY HDR FX7 footage , importing the footage using the AIC 1080i 60 . I am editing family footage for an entire year ( +/- 2 to 4 tapes) and keep my timeline/ sequence at 60 mins max .
After trimming , I am adding a few dissolves, a few Boris titles, and a soundtrack using AIFF's , about 6 or 7 songs in all . I sometimes add a 4 minute photo session at the end , I drag photos (2200 X 3800) straight from iPhoto into my timeline , usually about 50 photos lasting 3 seconds each , no transitions . I have used color corrector on about 10 minutes of footage , I like to desaturate a little and increase the blacks a touch and boost the mids a smidgen too . Not much .
I continually render ALL as I go along . When the project started failing on BluRay burn (iDVD burned no problem) I deleted all the render files and re-rendered all in one nice long single render .. took maybe 30 minutes .
Then outputted the reference movie ... in about 3 minutes .
This sounds normal to this point.
Even when I do a test video , about 5 mins long , with no editing at all , it'll take a good 3-5 hours.
What is "it"? Rendering in FCE? Exporting from FCE? Toast encoding the DVD?
I work on an hour a minute ...
I don't know what this means.
I started the render of the 60 min project again on Sat night 11pm, and now Monday morning it's 70% completed. Tonight , Monday , at 11pm it'll be close to being done .
Are you using the term "rendering" to mean the Encoding that Toast has to do to convert your FCE movie into a AVCHD file for Blu-Ray? Or something else?
Once done , it takes the Lacie D2 burner 3.5 hrs to burn the disc , each time . If you want 2 or 3 copies , thats 12 hrs again. I sometimes just burn 1 then use dic copy in TOAST for more .. takes 10 minutes then .
If it take a very long time to make multiple copies in Toast, but not to burn a DMG of the Blu-Ray, you need to check your settings in Toast.
Also, you list a 2006 G5 as your computer. Is this correct? The HD files that are used on a home made Blu-Ray are AVCHD files which are extremely processor intensive, which is why AVCHD is only supported on Macs with Intel processors, and not Power PC processors like your G5.
MtD