[madasahat]

i have a sanyo xacti and i am converting some vidio from hd to dvd is it normal to take a very very long time e.g a 20 min vidio has taken over 5 hours and its still not finished???

[redsox_mark]

It depends on your PC processor, and the software used, but yes it can take that long.

[senu]

20 min/ 5 hrs is very long indeed though..! I suppose AVCHD to SD..is not as easy as HDV to SD

It can (as suggested) be software dependent :Just what are you using?? I have used Nero Vision 5 and it was between 1.3 and 1.7x ie 20min would take 40min Max to render.. these were short clips though
Anyhow, these things may be best left overnight

[redsox_mark]

With the Xacti, which is 30 fps, if you are converting to PAL DVD then it has to rescale and also deal with the frame rate change. That can take a while.