How long should a near 3 hour video take to export?

[Mark Suszko]

Well, if you’re trying to do both at the same time, that’s going to slow down both. The estimates the machine gives are just that; estimates. Will it take a lot of hours to crunch? Very possibly. But I have had plenty of times where that progress bar suggested another couple hours were ahead, then poof, it was suddenly done. The estimate is based, I think, on a quick look ahead at the first few frames, and if they have a lot going on in them, it can throw off the calculation.

[Nick Meyers]

“i have the footage exporting on Apple Pro Res 422 1920×1080, 30fps and that what the videos are in the timeline but thats at 12 hours and keeps going up”

something doesn’t make sense.
is your footage really Prores 1920×1080?
and you’re cutting in a timeline with matching settings?

maybe you put a lot of FX on it, but not rendered them?

i prefer to render regularly during the edit,
then the show is much quicker to get out.
you can even export as a reference move if you plan to run it through compressor

remember “Render All” doesn’t by default render all!
it doesn’t render “Full quality ” fx,
to get that to happen, you have to go into the sequence menu > Render all. and check “Full”

nick