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43 hours exporting to Encore?!
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As Jon said the scaling is murderous on rendering speed as is the noise reduction. If you leave both out, keeping the scale to 100% and no noise reduction, throttling back on the quality settings to around 4 you will see a marked improvement in rendering times without visibly affecting quality.
Harm Millaard
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Jon.
You are quite correct – a laptop is not meant for rendering, and if I had foreseen 4 days of non-stop CPU use at max power, I would not have started. Now I’m concerned about some permanent damage to my CPU. As you suggest, I’m inclined to stop the second pass and get back to the raw footage – no fades, not frame enlargement, no noise reduction. As you say – stuff them.
Am I correct in assuming that stopping the rendering will get me back to the unrendered footage as it appears in the timeline? (i.e. the edits will remain but not fades and other effects.)
Thank you for all the help.
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Harm,
Thank you. I’ve learned my lesson with Premiere. I will never attempt so many “improvements” on a sequence longer than 2 seconds. 🙂
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Hahaha… 2 secs, that’s funny.
If you have not rendered the red bars on the top of the time line (effects/fades) they will still be there and export properly – its actually faster to export an unrendered timeline than if you render then ask it to export.
I didn’t realize you have noise reduction! That’s whats killing everything. The 102% is probably not that big a deal, but the noise reduction is not recommended as it will soften the details… yuck.
I doubt you’ve done any damage to you CPU. They switch off before they get too hot (reset or freeze) to keep it safe.
– Jon
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Jon,
The noise reduction does soften the image, but I put in just enough to minimize noise in the black areas of which there are plenty. If noise reduction is not recommended, why have it there in the first place? I often use noise reduction in PS with positive results. I guess the two modules process the image differently.
I’m not familiar enough with the red line over the timeline. There is a red line there but I need to read the manual in order to interpret its meaning.
Anyway, the second pass seems to be going a tad faster than the first. As of 15 minutes ago 53% had been completed with 19h53m to go.
Thank you, and I’ll keep you posted when it’s done.
BTW – the title of this thread should be changed to “64 hours and counting.”
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Removing grain in the Black is usually done with colour correction (grading) by crushing the blacks. Levels could be the easiest way to do it. That won’t take anywhere near as long as the noise reduction. If it’s shot right there is no need to grade only correct the unmatching colour in shots with colour correction/match. The red line means it needs to be rendered to see it in full quality and all frames per second.
Enter is the render key. When rendered the red line becomes green. You don’t need the green to export.
– Jon 🙂
(I’d like to know how it would go if you asked it to render again no noise red’ and some level adjustments to crush the blacks instead at 100% with a black border covering the imperfections of the video) -
Jon,
In the interest of bringing closure to this thread – I tried exporting the same material a second time with nothing added – no enlarging of the screen, no noise reduction, no color correction – NOTHING – and the time was dramatically shorter. As I recall, it was more like 3 to 4 hours.
Thank you all for the help and patient guidance. Lesson learned.
Ozzie Alfonso
Terra Associates
NYC
http://www.terramultimedia.com
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