Ok, all great info ! And thanks for your time on this. Hopefully one last question. How do I see if it's still exporting? Any way to view a queue? It's been 4 days now and I'm ready to try the different settings. As of now, I'm going back in every few hours to see if it's growing in size to determin...

Wow, passed right over that. So I should be on default / veryfast ? I also noticed I had no hardware acceleration set, as I'm sure that didn't help at all. So, these settings are just for export and don't affect how anything operate normally correct? Now if I change it, it asks if I want to over wri...

The client I have this installed on needs a full 24 hours of video exported. I selected the date, and it's exporting. However It's been almost a day and it's @ roughly 350Gb so far. From the traffic I see daily , it takes in 1.5Tb. Any way to export this faster ? The system is only running @ 30%ish....