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How to avoid long render times with Premiere Pro and Media Encoder
We’ve been doing a lot of projects with very long video sequences and multiple layers and it wasn’t unusual for the renders to take 6 or 8 hours for a 1 hour sequence. We have very fast machines with i7 processors, fast graphic cards and 8-16 gigs of ram. For a long time we knew this wasn’t the way it was supposed to be but couldn’t find the answer. This week we solved the puzzle. Because our projects are very complicated and we didn’t want to lose any work, we’ve had our Premiere Pro autosave set to every five minutes. Premiere is open while Media Encoder is encoding from the timeline and what we found is that the autosave was slowing up the renders tremendously. Simply by turning off Premiere Pro autosave we got the rendering time down to 1/3 or 1/4 of what it was with the autosave on. I hope this helps anyone with similar problems.
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Very interesting – Thanks for Sharing!
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Would closing Premiere Pro while encoding have the same effect? Would be inconvenient and possibly a bit dangerous to keep having to turn autosave off and remembering to turn it back on everytime I do an encode.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Dear God, you may have changed the course of my life. I will test this and see for myself
ChrisW
http://www.azprovideo.com -
I do the long exports (just did a 72 minute doc) by sending
the sequence to media encoder (hitting que button)I have auto save on and it had no affect on the export time.
It did it unrendered in almost realtime, though it was just a single
1080i video track with some titles on it and a few blown up shots.cs 6 mac with a quadro 4000
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