Step 6 – Conversion Progress

At this stage, the wizard is now reading your original file(s) and writing out the compressed versions of them in the location you have specified. Please be patient – conversion time is dependent upon many factors, but on a typical Pentium 4 PC, you can expect to see an average of 2-4 seconds of real time for every 1 second of video time (ie. a 1 minute video may take between 2 and 4 minutes to process to the end).

The Buzz 3D Video & Graphics Setup Wizard is however fully multi-threaded, and multi-core, so Dual and Quad-Core PC’s will see significant speed benefits in the time taken to process their files.

At any point, you can click ‘Abort’ to stop the procedure.

Handy Tip: After the Source Position counter indicates about 5 seconds or more, you can use your Windows File Explorer to navigate to the destination file and double-click it to play it in your media player. This will give you a chance to see the output of the encoder so far, and to determine if you should abandon encoding and adjust quality.