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  • My PC isnt powerful enough to use Max Render on Premiere CS4

    Posted by Chris Butler on August 12, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Hey there!

    Newbie here so please be gentle. I’m in the process of making a film which I want to burn onto DVD. The original footage was shot on a Canon Legria HD camcorder and edited in Adobe Premiere CS4 in an HD Pal 1050i project. I used to the maximum render facility to create a nice looking MPG2 file which matches the high resolution of theoriginal footage. However, when I try to take this MPG2 through encore it produces pretty awful results because it is obviously downscaling the HD footage for SD DVD. The only option I saw was to select the “Maximum Quality Render” option.

    Turns out my little dual core processors simply aren’t powerfl enough to process this in under a week! 🙂

    Clearly I need another way of maintaining the best possible quality I can without my computer exploding. I dont really want to go back to square one by starting a new SD project and resizing all the footage so it fits.

    I’ve tried encoding the MPG2 as an AVI to see if the quality is reduced any further but i really am lost so I hope someone can help me.

    Many thanks!

    Bill Stephan replied 16 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Olanrewaju Olakunle

    August 12, 2010 at 11:01 am

    I will interested in the solution to this problem also as I experience same thing on core 2 duo with Quadro fx3800

    Spirit

  • Bill Stephan

    August 17, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Did you encode the MPEG-2 as HD or as PAL size? PAL DVD uses MPEG-2 @ 720×576 pixels at 25fps. It sounds as if Encore is trying to downsize HD assets.

    Bill Stephan
    Senior Editor/DVD Author
    USA Studios
    New York City

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