Exporting Matrox HD Project To MPEG-2 DVD Taking Very Long

[Jeff Pulera]

Turn off MAX BIT DEPTH. Some things are unchecked by default for a reason.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Volodymyr,

Please excuse the brevity of my last post, I was in too much of a hurry. First, the MAX option on the Matrox MXO2 hardware devices is a hardware H.264 encoding accelerator – it will not speed up any exports to MPEG-2 formats.

That said, your system should export to MPEG-2 MUCH faster than what you are experiencing. I notice you have the GTX 460 graphics card installed. This is NOT on the Adobe-approved list for GPU-accelerated editing using the Mercury Playback Engine. However, you CAN enable this card and get better performance by using the simple instruction here –

https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Enabling the Nvidia card in Premiere will not only enhance editing performance, but may also help with the exporting speed as well.

Next, regarding export settings in Adobe Media Encoder, when exporting to DVD from an HD source, you would typically want “Maximum Render Quality” checked, as this improves the downscaling quality. The “Max Bit Depth” button is usually NOT checked – no advantage when working with 8-bit video.

With your system, exporting using CBR or 1-Pass VBR, I would expect a 2-hour HD project to export in under 3 hours, much less than the 8 hours you experienced. Note that SD exports to DVD should be almost 10x FASTER than realtime! These times exclude any rendering of red-bar areas of Premiere, which should be reduced or eliminated by enabling your GPU.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Volodymyr Kashuba]

Thank you Jeff for traing to help me with this issue.
I understand that MAX will not speed up any exports to MPEG-2 formats. I just show it what I am workin whith.

GTX 460 graphics card I am using, is enabled exetly that way from the site you sugest.

I will try on my next project to live “Max Bit Depth” otion unchecked, but I dont think it will reduce the time from 8hrs to 3hrs. I think I try this already before and my time was abaut 5hrs on 2hrs timeline. All my project are that long. This is the reason I made thid discussion.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit,
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (overclocked to 4.5GHz),
CORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Performance CPU Cooler, ASUS P8P67 PRO,
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB,
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 2GB ,
Matrox MXO2 with MAX,
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Black ATX Full Tower Computer Case,
Adobe CS 5 Production Premium

[Volodymyr Kashuba]

Direct export and unchecked render with maximum depth. Export of 1hour 45min took 1hour. This is the solution. Thank you Jeff Pulera for help.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit,
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (overclocked to 4.5GHz),
CORSAIR CWCH50-1 High Performance CPU Cooler, ASUS P8P67 PRO,
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB,
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 2GB ,
Matrox MXO2 with MAX,
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Black ATX Full Tower Computer Case,
Adobe CS 5 Production Premium