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Premiere Pro exports slow on fast machine
Why does Premiere Pro 2 render (when exporting .avi) so slow? My whole machine is only using 3-8% of CPU performance.
I’m using a custom built Supermicro with two Xeon 2.8 dual core processors with hyperthreading enabled. The media is on a 3ware RAID 5 array with SATA II drives. I have 8 GB SDRAM running on XP Pro 64X.
I know the program will only utilize one thread from each processor, but even those threads are barely using 10% each.
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4 Replies
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The OS is not supported. Could that be the cause?
Harm Millaard
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Pretty much what Harm said. CS3 however will export very fast on Vista. We just built a couple of dual Core 2 quads, 8 Gigs of RAM, NVidia 8800. We are running a 3 drives Raid 5 for render and a 2 drives Raid 0 for OS. These things are flying. I think the last DVD export I did took less than 20 minutes on a 2 Pass VBR for an hour long timeline.
Either downgrade to XP (Won’t do you good for memory), or upgrade to CS3.
Vince
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I figured the x64 had something to do with it. I was told by Adobe that CS3 also isn’t supported by Windows x64.
I bought extra RAM primarily for After Effects, and use that a lot, so I can’t go back to XP 32.
I’ll be upgrading to CS3 production suite within the next few days/weeks, and hope for the best. They did however tell my that they integrated Nucleo (a plug-in that will use whatever processing power you have or assign) into After Effects CS3, so I’m excited to see how that performs.
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While it might not take advantage of the 64 bit technology, it certainely runs fine on that system and allows you to utulize all that (so far) extra memory for After Effects. And it does take advantage of the multicore technology as well. With 8 cores, I actually am able to assign 4 of those to After Effects, and 4 to Premiere, making multitasking a breeze, and freeing the other system for network rendering.
Vince
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