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Exporting footage file.
Hi,
I’ve only fairly recently entered into the world of Premiere Pro video editing and as you’d expect I have a query (or two…) 🙂
I have been editing footage taken on a Panasonic mini DV cam (NV GS120) via Adobe PPro; kind of getting to grips with the basics (trimming/audio adding/effects etc) but there’s obviously a great deal more to this programme (de-interlacing??? – should I worry about this at the current stage?)
My current issue is with exporting the footage I have edited together in the timeline as a viewable file (say as a .movs file or .avi).
I have 5 minute chunks of footage (for a client) but this is taking [B]4 hours![/B] to export/render across…is this normal? I’d hate to think how long it takes to export a short film in this manner! My PC is relatively fast (1.2ghz) and was built less than a year ago…or is it purely down to the fact dv footage takes up a massive amount of resources/space?The other query (I’m sure there will be more however :confused: ) is that the sequence clips seem to be saving themselves as files (i.e. 5/6 second clips taking up 9mb ‘ish’) – doesn’t this mean that the moive is being saved twice? Once for the export (999mb for 5 mins footage for example) then the same again for the individual sequences??
Really hope somebody can shed light on this!
Many thanks.
soma.
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First, 1.2 ghz is not considered relatively fast for video processing. I don’t mean that to discourage you but you should understand that video is resource-intensive and some of the processing will be time consuming. There are several factors that effect this. In addition to the speed of your processor the amount of RAM you have is key. One Gig of RAM is considered the minimum daily requirement for efficient video processing.
Have you applied a lot of special effects, audio transitions, audio effects, video and/or audio corrections? These can have a big effect on your processing time, especially if you are working on a computer that is bare minimum requirement. Think of each correction, transition or effect as another layer of processing that needs to happen. The more layers, the more time it will take.
I work on a computer that has a 1.5 ghx processor and 1 gig of RAM. Over the weekend I rendered a video is close to two hours running time in about 40 minutes. The special effects, transitions, etc were minimal, though.
I don’t think I understand your second query (love that word!). If you mean that the original clips that you captured are saved and the .avi file that you render are saved as separate files, then yes, that is the case. Technically they are different files containing different information. Again, I’m not sure that I understand your question properly.
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