-
3 Hours to render a 4 minute clip?
Hello, I used Adobe Premier, and Adobe After Effects to put together something for class. However it is taking an extremely long time to encode (3:12:03 as of writing this). I started it 15 minutes ago and its only on 3%. The setting I used were H.264 and 720p 30fps with a CBR. My computer has 2gb of ram (probably the problem) and a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. I also used a lot of compositing, and the source footage is from a Cannon EOS 7D (video, which may be the other problem). The sequence is DSLR 1080p 30fps I believe. Does anybody have any tips, or solutions? It’s 5 p.m. here and I’m worried it won’t be ready for me to take it to class at 7a.m. tommorrow. Can anybody help?
-
7 Replies
-
Try to export as Uncompressed first as it is not requiring to compress the processing “technically” would be faster. Then use the uncompressed output file to convert to the H.264 for class. The speed of export from this then is less processing and again in total “technically” the overall time “could” be less.
2Gig of RAM really is not enough. 4G is minimum recommended.
Good Luck. 🙂
JB
Jon Barrie
Adobe Video Solutions Consultant ANZ
Jon’s YouTube Tutorial Page
follow Jon with twitter -
This is probably a stupid question, but how exactly do I do that? I have the export window open and it says Format:, Preset:, Comments etc.
I don’t see an option for uncompressed, could you help me? And a note for the future, would this be quicker if I used SD footage instead of HD? -
Are you on PC or Mac?
WARNING: File Size will be quite big.
PC/Mac: Both can use this export format.
Format – Quicktime
Go to Video tab, tinker…
Video Codec – None
Width & Height – “whatever your sequence is set to”
Frame Rate – “whatever your sequence is set to”
Field Type – “whatever your sequence is set to”
Aspect – “whatever your sequence is set to”Apologies for it being so manual, but once you set it, you can save it ias a preset with the little save icon next to the preset dropdown list.
And Yes, SD would be faster than HD as material to work from. Esxporting HD to SD is not faster, that requires way more processing to rescale.
Cheers JB
Jon Barrie
Adobe Video Solutions Consultant ANZ
Jon’s YouTube Tutorial Page
follow Jon with twitter -
The bottom line is that you are working on a system that is fundamentally limited in what it can do with PPro CS5/5.5, which is the reason for the transcode time projection.
I think Jon’s suggestion is a good one, but for this software, most of us who use it would recommend 4 core processing and 4 (I usually urge people toward 8) bare minimum and I mean absolute bare minumum….particularly for processor-intense decoding of H264 formats like AVCHD or DSLR footage.
In any case, adding RAM will definitely help a bit at the very, very least.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
-
You definitely need more RAM. 2GB is not enough.
Are there any dynamically linked After Effects comps in your video? Those tend to slow export times way down as well.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
-
As I found out, I was doing somethings wrong. It is midnight here so I will post tommorrow
-
Ram can actually hep a lot. The key is to listen to your hard drive and if it’s working like crazy, non stop then you’re out of available ram. Task manager in Windows, and Activity Monitor in Mac will tell how much is your using. If it’s maxed out than render times will be much slower.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up