CS4 Premiere Pro really super slow?

[Deleted User]

Hello,

I would try a stripped down computer in terms of Operating systems, do not go online, have all the latest Windows updates, and Adobe updates.

Also if you have a lot of effects in your project which require rendering then yes it would take along time. Might be faster to rneder out your compositions from After Effects then load the video into Premiere in place of the Dynamic links from After effects.

Leo

[Peter Berthet]

in my experience premieres time remaining indicator sucks to high heaven,

have you actually left the render to go for more than an hour or just cancelled it immediately ?

i had a similar problem on a project that indicated it was going to take 16 hours to render but after an hour or so of exporting the time remaining dropped to 2 hours and was fairly swift afterwards

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Mr Ed]

Yes, I have experienced the bad render bar with premiere pro. It took 1 hour and it still said 13 so I stopped it. FUNnY THING THOU…. I did the same thing last night and it didn’t take that long at all. So I am thinking I must have a virus or something… I am going to call Dell Tech support to see whats up.

[Jason Harris]

dont want to sound mean, but you have 97 PROCESSES running!

That would slow ANY pc down, that 97 things your processors have to do, and firefox is a MEMORY PIG (no matter what they do they will not fix the leak yet)

slim down and try again

AGREED THO

CS4 is disgustingly SLOW on all systems, its either live with it or go back to CS3 where its triple faster and much more productive, and even better, your not MISSING out on anything!

[Mr Ed]

Hey thanks for the heads up. I don’t know too much about what needs to be running and what doesn’t on my machine.

Well I love that I can import FLVs and also render in the Background thru meida encoder and keep working. I also like how it seems to flow better with AE. This is really the only time I have had a major problem.

I did get the render to work btw… it took like 3 hours and not 13 like it said it would. But it did say NOT RESPONDING almost the whole time in the encoder.

How do I slim down my processes running on my machine?

[Mike Velte]

[Ed Vizenor] “How do I slim down my processes running on my machine?”

Not in front Vista at the moment, but enter msconfig in the search box just above the Start button. This will launch the System Configuration Utility. Select the Services tab, select “Hide all Microsoft Services”, then Disable All. Reselect Flexnet… and click Apply.
Select the Start Up Tab, choose Disable All and then OK.
Reboot and select “Dont Show me again” on the Window that pops up.

[Jason Harris]

I didnt even think you were ON VISTA
cant help you there, most of the people we work with have stayed smart and stayed with the more (Stable) XP so far

but still 97 processes is a lot, thin down you should notice a difference, IMHO though 3 HOURS to do ANYTHING is shamefully nonproductive

ADOBE really isnt trying to make any new friends are they?

I can see a movie editor (tell the studio) we know you want the film done in a month, but premiere pro says the render will take 30 months, and the encoding another 10 lol

Thats why film pros use AVID (We never got it to work though!)

[Tim Kolb]

I find it interesting that so many say “yeah, Adobe is slow” even though Ed says “everything including FireFox is slow.”

Troubleshooting 101: If all software is slow, it’s probably not the software’s fault.

Also, if there are 97 processes running, obviously the computer isn’t running efficiently.

Also…as for “shameful render times”…Ed mentions he has complex After Effects comps on the timeline…that need to render. This is not a 3 minute Premiere Pro timeline render, it’s a Premiere render with one or more After Effects comps inside.

Thankfully at least some of the responses are actually diagnostic in this thread so ed can get his situation cleaned up.

BTW: in the Media Encoder settings, choose not to export the XML data with the file, that’ll grease the wheels.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Rick Godin]

Tim,
What does “exporting XML data” with the file give you? And I agree, seems like he had a lot of other sludge in the pipe on that machine. I’m just anxiously awaiting 4.1 upgrade to help speed up my epic-size projects.

rg

You never get hurt in the air!

[Mike Cohen]

We had some CS4 Media Encoder growing pains, but things run pretty smoothly now. Definitely check your startup items in MSCONFIG and turn off anything you don’t need like itunes helper, anything associated with Real player and the elusive Java update.

As Tim and the others have mentioned, a Premiere sequence with embedded AE is going to be slower. You should keep track of how long certain variables take to render, so in the future you will know that, for example, a 10 minute sequence with XYZ filer should take about 6 hours, or whatever.

It’s not magic, it’s a computer!

Mike Cohen