On Friday 04 May 2007, James Pifer wrote: >I've been googling and haven't come up with much. I have some DV tapes I >want to capture and convert to MPEG2. I can capture the video using >kino, which creates a 15+ GB file for a 60 min tape. Using kino to >export this to MPEG2 is taking a long time. Been going 25 minutes and >there's an estimated 6 hours to go! Machine is a Celeron 2.66 Ghz. > >Is there a better way? Is there anything that can capture right to >MPEG2? > >Thanks, >James 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. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I'm thinking about DIGITAL READ-OUT systems and computer-generated IMAGE FORMATIONS ...
