> > > > 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
