Uli Plank wrote:What are you using to transcode and into which codec? That sounds really slow, even for an older machine.
I loaded the 90 minute file into FC7 and just picked generic Quicktime conversion into 1920x1080 (what the material basically is). In the end it took about 9 hours to render it into a 25 GB file (60% reduction in size. 6x real time).
Material looks perfectly fine on Da Vinci. After some tweaks I rendered it for Youtube at same HD (DVR preset), which happened in about 15 minutes with the new Mac Mini M2, 6 times faster than real time.
Thus, approximately, the new Mac is about 36 times faster than the Mac Pro from 15 years back.
Problem solved in a roundabout way. I have only a few additional old files to convert, so this method works for now, unless somebody comes up with a solution to ingest them into DVR.
Thanks all.