• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Rendering speed test !!

  Posted by Maxx Leonard on November 14, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  Hi All

  Recently bought a HP XW6600, Quad Core Xeon E5420, 2.5GHz, 8GB RAM, 250GB HDD, DVD+/-RW, +extra 500GB (7200rpm) second drive, Nvidia quadro FX 1700 512MB Graphics, – mainly to edit HDV/SD footage In Premiere CS3.

  I captured 30 secs of HD footage, applied a duration/speed of 50% which extended the footage to 60 secs and then rendered it.
  I was hoping that it would render in a few seconds but it took 2.5 mins. My previous pc – this test would take 5 mins.
  So the HP is 2 times quicker at rendering then my old machine (pentium 4) but for me this seems really slow still.

  What times can you guys achieve?, and what can I do to speed up rendering time? Will a matrox card (RT.X2) make any difference?

  Any ideas would be really appreciated .

  Thanks

  Maxx

  Maxx Leonard replied 17 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Eric Jurgenson

  November 14, 2008 at 10:07 pm

  See my post above.
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  Lloyd Coleman

  November 15, 2008 at 4:41 am

  I can’t tell you how to speed your system up, but I do think it is performing well below what it should.

  My machine is several steps below yours (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2GB RAM) and renders 30 seconds of HD footage slowed to 50% in 1:35.
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  Maxx Leonard

  November 15, 2008 at 11:43 am

  Thanks LLoyd
  The times will help put everything in to perspective, and realise that I will need to do something to improve performance.
  Maxx
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  Maxx Leonard

  November 15, 2008 at 11:46 am

  Thanks Eric
  looks like add another processor, a matrox and alot of extra cash to spend!
  rgds
  Maxx

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