exporting movies

[Vince Becquiot]

It depends on the machine you are using. On a dual core 2.5 Ghz, 2GB Ram, an hour long SD video (without color correction, or softing options) should take about 2 hours.

On a Pentium 4, I’ve seen renders as long as 18+ hours. It really depends on the machine and the effects you are applying. Large images (I think Steve has it down to more than 50% scaling) will make your renders quite a bit longer.

Also, 2 passes double your render time. On export of less than 1 hour, use CBR.

Cheers,

Vince

[Kent Smith]

I’ve gone trough a lot of this. For Mpg, watch your bit rates. Keep them high as you can. (Enore won’t accept higher than 7K bit rate, I believe — when I tried 9k, it said bit rate was too high.)
Quicktimes always come out terrible with PPro, so I’d forget it. WMV comes out great, but keep everything high. Default setting are very low, by the way. (I’d use an outside converter to make Quicktimes out of WMV…better than PPro, anyway.)
If you’re in HDv or any 1080, look for long render times, especially with a lot of color or efx applied. I’ve had up to 50 hours for a 100 minute project to render out to an HDV file with just basic color correction and some lighting effects done to it.
And one short SD project, took 11 hours because I used a radial blur, a slight color channel blur, and some extreme color blance effects.
It may take a lot of trial and error, so I used to just output 1 or 2 sec clips, and check the quality verses render time. And as the one guy posted, I only do single pass (mpg) unless it’s a master file. For DVD, I think single pass with 7k max, and 6K target is good for around a hour length show.
I hope that helps. If anyone knows how to keep render times down, but still edit in native HDV, I’d like to know.

[Aanarav Sareen]

– What are your export settings?
– What are your computer specs?

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/techtalk