The collected works of RacerX

So, I'm sitting here converting a captured movie to Quicktime and wondering if there is a faster way of doing this.

It is about a six minute segment, captured at full size/frame rate with a Cosmo Compression card (which only works when using the Cosmo jpeg codec). Unfortunately I need to turn this into Quicktime at half size and 15 frames per second.

I'm currently using MediaConvert to turn the captured segment into Quicktime (same size/rate) using the photo jpeg codec. From there I can get it onto one of my Macs to get it down further with Sorenson Video 3 and reducing the size/rate at the same time.

It is going to take six hours to convert this thing (which captured in six minutes). Is there some thing I can do to cut this process down? Capturing straight to Quicktime at the size/rate I want is possible, but the quality is awful. Is there a Cosmo codec for Macs so I can work with the original captured file? I'm using IRIX 6.2, is there better Quicktime codecs included with 6.5.x (not really an option as I don't have the money for it right now)?

Just wondering as I have time to kill.

(hardware: Indy R4400sc/175, 128 MB RAM, 9.1 GB hard drive, Indy Video and Cosmo Compress boards)

Well, the Quicktime Cinepak codec requires a license and so does the MPEG-1 encoding.

I guess this gives me a reason to finally figure out how to set the name server address so I can get on the internet and see if anything at the old 6.2 shareware site helps. Besides, I need some other stuff and grabbing parts and pieces to bring over gets old fast. Specially when you get conflicts while installing something simple like AbiWord.

I'm trying it again, this time converting it to quicktime without any compression. Early estimates show this knocked off about 2 hours... it's a start. I'll try the SGI JPEG encoding on something smaller next.

I just want to get the time down a little while keeping the quality up. This is mainly just to figure out how long projects of this nature would take.

Thanks.