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  Long render times in Premiere CS3

  Posted by Alan Tone on October 11, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  I was wondering if there is a way to shorten my render times. I thought that buying a new quad core Mac with 14GB of ram would do the trick, but it’s not much faster than my old dual core PC with 2GB. The file I’m rendering is a 1080×720 movie with 7-8 AE transitions, and a voice and music track. The total length is 25 minutes and it’s taking about 14 hours to render.

  Another problem I’m having is that twice now when rendering as a .mov file the render goes late into the night and then when I check it in the morning I get a message that “…failed to return a frame…canceling render” or some such aggravating error, and I have to start again.

  Is Final Cut any better? There has got to be a better way, One day shooting, one day editing and then a week to render…

  Thanks, Alan

  Alan Tone replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Perry Cheng

  October 11, 2008 at 5:46 pm

  Alan,
  25min for 1080×720 quality takes 25hrs sounds about right for your setup. Yes, a Quad will help, perhaps cut that to half? (I have a quad, yes, it still takes 10+ hrs to render 30min stuff sometimes, depends on the # effects applied.

  Perry
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  Alan Tone

  October 11, 2008 at 5:53 pm

  Will FCP do it any faster?

  Alan Tone
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