
Re-encoding between PAL and NTSC and/or compression of HD source are tasks that Toast seems to struggle with. Having said that I would agree that it is onerously slow at certain tasks. It's intended primarily for the amateur/hobbyist audience. Toast is not a product designed for high-throughput, production oriented applications. Toast 11 is a multi-processor aware applicationģ. Encoding video through software is a (CPU) labor intensive processĢ. To be fair one has to acknowledge a few basic facts on this topic:ġ. Also when hitting never reencode will it format it to play on a bluray player? Or is that what you mean by multiplex? Thanks again. Will switching to Mpeg-2 hurt the quality though? I appreciate your speedy reply. Remember when doing these tests to empty the Roxio Converted Items folder between tests because Toast will otherwise re-use any already-encoded video files located there when it can which defeats the purpose of timing how long the encoding takes.

Or you can keep the MPEG 4 format and see if Never Re-encode causes Toast to multiplex rather than encode the video. Toast has its own MPEG 2 encoder and that may be faster than the MPEG 4 encoding.

button and then click the Encoding tab and Custom button in the window that appears. Go to the custom encoder settings window by clicking the Customize. By choosing Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button you won't need any discs to do these tests. I suggest creating a 1-minute clip of one of your videos and conducting some tests. I've noticed the extremely long encoding times as well.
