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Export Time?
I media managed my project, a 17 minute short film. It’s 171 gigs, which is huge in my opinion.
I set the in and out points, color graded as sent it off to be exported to an mp4. That was 24 hours ago, and it’s still exporting.
Is this normal?
What is the normal export time for something like this?
All I really wanted this for was to check the color grading on a few different monitors.
Is there an easier way to export where it doesn’t take days? If a person did a full length feature it would probably take a week to export it at this rate.
THANK YOU!
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3 Replies
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Hey Van,
There are soo many different places that could be the reason for your slow export.
Everything from processor, to memory, storage and so on.
Are you doing the render on your Dell, or?And, why MP4!?
Would you not want a master copy export at highest resolution?
It appears that you are trying to render a lot of elements, whilst squeezing it down in size.
I would suggest that you do the Master out first in best codec.
My choice is ProRes 4444 .mov – ProRes HQ might be enough for your purpose. In Davinci Studio you have alot of choice.
Next run off a “copy” or a down-convert of your master file to H265 (if 4K) or H264 if lower than 4K.By doing the Master in same quality / resolution as your source footage, it should hopefully render faster.
Atb
Mads -
My system would render an mp4 of a 17 minute film in about 5 minutes max. So clearly there is a problem which may be anything from a computer that is below minimum spec, to a corrupt file or disk problems. Are you trying to write a file to a drive that has a size limit like a FAT32 formatted thumb drive?
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The computer I bought was a Dell about 2 years ago to record music with. In order to get Da Vinci to work on this computer I had to buy a new graphics card. I bought a Zotac GeForce GT 1030 because it was the only one that would work and fit in my Dell.
There’s two things, I’m using the free version of DaVinci, so it won’t work the same as the paid version. But, it should hold the render, and it doesn’t. With Final Cut, once I rendered a timeline it stayed rendered till I made a change to a clip. Then that clip would need to be re-rendered. With Da Vinci right now I can export a clip and the red line never goes away.
The second thing is, my computer has no problem working the editing phase or the color correcting. It possibly might not be strong enough to render such large files. I have to look into that.
I have been able to color correct and watch with ease as long as the playback is at 1/2, 1/4 or on proxy. I think I might be done color correcting. But, I’m not positive.
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