OT: Using kino on fc5; convert dv to mpeg2

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Fri May 4 18:02:24 UTC 2007


> > 
> > That sounds about right, the last wedding I shot was 22 minutes of video,
> > and it took my XP2800 about 90 minutes to export it as mpeg2.  Since you
> > are compressing on the fly, its not anything like a realtime operation. 
> > Be patient. :)
> 
> One possible way to "speed up" the process is, as you seem to have
> multiple tapes, capture them as .dv files and do a conversion for all of
> them buy a single run of the ffmpeg command (start it just before going to
> bed).
> 

I like the idea, but at 15+ GB per tape, I don't have the space to be
able to even do that.

James




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