TMPGEnc users, how do you decrease overall processing time?

[Deja Q]

For a 95 minute program with noise removal and a hint of sharpness improvement, the process' ETA is 37 hours.

VirtualDub, while not admittedly as good with the noise removal, takes about 5 hours (I've a separate MPEG2/DVD encoder that can do its thing in an hour.)

I think something's amiss, but I'm not sure...

Thanks for any help you could provide
!

[hobbit709]

1. What CPU speed

OS, how much memory, Hard drive space, and what's running in background?
These affect the speed of any process.

I wouldn't mess with video at less than 1.5GHz cpu speed, 512 Mb RAM and a drive partition of at least 30 Gbytes. I would definitely do an "End Task" on everything except explorer, systray and my video application.

[Deja Q]

2. Forgot:

Athlon XP 2700+ CPU
1GB RAM
160GB hard drive, 30GB left. (Will be culling data once the AVIs are converted and burned.)

I'll double-check the task list, there's a lot going on that's for sure. :-)

[hobbit709]

3. I hope

you have that drive partioned. It will save a lot of grief in the future. i've partioned mine since my first 200 Megabyte drive

[Deja Q]

4. Two drives, actually: 40GB for OS, 160GB for data/video.

I've never needed to use the swap file thanks to 1GB RAM, but I keep it on the main HD as, using swap RAM would cause a lot of problems during video processing (access speeds).

[Deja Q]

5. Having observed Tmpeg's rather higher quality...

I think I'll live with the speed. :D (Review sites have also pegged tmpeg as slow.)

The de-flicker filter will come much in handy for my bought VHS tape of "The Time Meddler" when I archive it to DVD. :9