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MPEG-DVD rendering times: Premiere vs. After Effects
There doesn’t seem to be a category for Adobe Media Encoder, so hopefully this is an OK place to put this thread.
I am trying to figure out why an MPEG-DVD render of my 102 minute feature is taking 42 hours when rendering via Adobe Media Encoder started from Premiere Pro CS4. If I import the project into After Effects and use the rendering cue, it only takes about 3 hours with the same settings.
The only thing I can think of is that in After Effects, I can manually adjust the number and percentage of CPU cores being used, and also if Open GL rendering on the card is utilized. I can’t find these options anywhere in Adobe Media Encoder. In all documentation, Adobe states that the render cue in AE is a “scaled down” version of the standalone Adobe Media Encoder, but I don’t find this to be the case. AE seems to give you much more control over how things work (resources utilized for render). There are more presets and options in Adobe Media Encoder, but no way to control Open GL, CPU cores, RAM, etc.
The project footage is uncompressed YUV 10bit 4:2:2 1920×1080. The machine is a four core 950 Bloomfield i7 3.07GHz with 12GB RAM running Win7 64bit. My video card has Open GL rendering.
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Hi Jonas,
Premiere and After Effects are built by 2 different teams and their core programming is vastly different. This is mostly because AE was purchased by Adobe in the 90’s. After Effects will almost always take much longer to render, and up until recently at least, its scaling quality was much better than Premiere.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Correct, Vince. This is why I’m posting. AE should take much longer, but instead it will burn my MPEG-DVD file in 3 hours to Adobe Media’s 42 hours. AE is incredibly faster.
So, what’s up with this situation, and is there anywhere you can access how Adobe Media utilizes systems resources (RAM, CPU’s, etc.) like you can in After Effects?
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Right, I misread that post a little. That’s indeed strange. You are importing the project, just an exported file right?
It could be a filter that After Effects is handling better?
Have you tried a direct export from Premiere instead of render queue?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hmmm. Not sure what you mean by direct export vs. render cue from Premiere. To my knowledge the only way to export out of Premiere is via Adobe Media Encoder. Please do let me know if I’ve overlooked something.
No filters involved. There is just a single clip linked to the uncompressed footage on the timeline (which makes the 42 hour render out of Premiere just ridiculously painful).
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Hilarious. To try and avoid converting from the huge uncompressed HD file, I just tried setting up a timeline in Premiere to export an MPEG-DVD file from my BluRay render (h264BluRay), and Adobe Media Encoder is telling me the export will take more than 112 hours.
There doesn’t seem to be any quick way to get from HD to SD via AME.
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