In putting this FireWire issue with videopad to bed, it was determined that an AVI file stored in 720x480 that now comes in videopad as 640x480 will be stored with all its resolution at the 720x540 and keeping the aspect ratio correct. So in converting the AVI file with the latest version of 10.52 I converted to an MP4 at 720x540. I thought the version 7.51 went away forever.
However, I was wrong! Now the problem is 7.51 is 6X faster then 10.52. I don't know if it's because the least compression is faster or what. I'm in the process of trying to figure that out. Normally converting a one hour AVI file will take about 30 minutes on my PC(While I'm retrieving the next file with Pinnacle 23). But the same file in 10.52 took 3 hours. So being the software engineer I am I decided to try to figure out which version slowed down. So I created a one minute project and put the results in 7.51 and all the versions afterwards to determine where the problem seems to slow down. In my 1 minute example it is only a 3X difference so I must've not of chosen the worst 60 minutes. But the results are still the same.
Here is my cloud link to the 1 minute project.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqNtLprij_LAxTsuuSA?e=j0oqSi
Here is the output in MP4 file which is 3 or 4 times larger than the following versions. However, it's much faster
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqNtLprij_LAxTsuuSA?e=j0oqSi
Here is the output in MP4 of the following version I have which is where it seems to slow down and the file is much smaller in version 8.0.
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqNtNlGvgQmg5qiXwNg?e=B6o2Vl
So the problem seemed to arise with the following version that I stored on my computer which was 8.0. Maybe you guys can shed some light as what I can do by not using 7.51 because so much faster. Remember my only goal here is to get the file converted into something that video pad can use to pass on to the image stabilizer. Maybe I shouldn't even have to transfer to MP4, maybe just use the original AVI should be good enough what you think? I have always avoided that issue because the 640x480 resolution
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I just verified with 10.52 with the encoder output level at 25,000 kbps still takes full 2 minutes. Where 7.51 only took 30 seconds. So clearly it's not the encoder level. So looks like I'm still stuck the 7.51.
