• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Should it take 12 hours to encode 45 minuted?

  Posted by Matt Rickman on January 21, 2009 at 9:33 pm

  I have a timeline that is 45 minutes. DV Widescren (captured HDV Downcoverted to DV) Very simple edits.. The main clip has a brightness/contrast filter on it, as well as 3 way color corrector. I cut away to a graphic (a large .tiff file animated on the timeline) a few times. But otherwise this is a very simple project.

  The entire timeline is rendered. (Hit Enter) Which took overnight.

  Now I am exporting to a WMV file. It has elapsed 1 hour and says it has 11 more to go. Is this normal?

  Dell Pentium 4 Dual 3.2ghz
  4gb Ram
  10k SCSI Hard Drives in a RAID
  Nvidia QuadroFX 4500 Video Card
  PPro CS4

  thanks
  matt rickman

  George Sey replied 17 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  January 21, 2009 at 9:48 pm

  It’s possible. The tiff file maybe what’s throwing of you render, if it i scaled below 50%. Other render killers would includes blur and noise reduction.

  Vince Becquiot
  Director | Editor

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Mikkell Khan

  January 22, 2009 at 1:46 am

  Pentium 4….large TIFF file….yep….it would take a long time, but 12 hours…that is a bit strange.

  See if you can’t encode it without the TIFF file or with a small resolution of it and see how long it takes.

  If that is the culprit, think you can just make the tiff an avi file and bring that into the project instead?
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  Matt Rickman

  January 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm

  OK.. So I just got into my office.. And it is still encoding. It has gone over 19 hours so far and says it has and hour and a half to go.

  The tif file is used about 3 minutes of the 45 minute timeline.

  Is my system the weak link here?

  matt
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  Tim Kolb

  January 23, 2009 at 2:26 am

  is the project a DV sequence with HDV clips on it, all scaled down?

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,
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  Matt Rickman

  January 23, 2009 at 6:10 pm

  Hi tim,
  No. I captured widescreen DV (Downconverted in camera from HDV)

  thanks
  matt
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  Tim Kolb

  January 24, 2009 at 5:03 am

  There must be something else going on here. That render time makes no sense.

  What other types of stuff is installed in the machine?

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,
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  George Sey

  January 27, 2009 at 2:40 pm

  Your Computer is the weak link here and the tiff too. You should have resized and converted the file to a targa. Tiff is for printing and struggles in video editing applications due to the resolution and size. Premiere pro works good with a quad core without hassles, so you might think of upgrading your board and procesor.

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