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How to maximize preview render times
Please feel free to point me in the right direction if this comes up all the time. Tried to search around a bit but I don’t always use all the right words.
So I spend a lot of time waiting for previews to render in PPro CS4. I’m using a 2×2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac, 12GB RAM. Projects are in HDV. Currently I’m working on something pretty basic. HDV footage of a talking head on a white seamless edited in a sequence. That sequence is stacked on top of itself in another sequence for some blending effects and then sharpened. So two tracks, one with 1 effect and the other with 2. It’s approximately 7min long and to render a preview takes roughly 5 hrs.
I’ve always worked like that, just assuming that render times are part of the deal, but here I am, with ~5hrs on my hands to check out the forums. Does this kind of time sound normal for you guys?
Hope I gave the needed info, still learning.
Thanks.
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HDV is the problem. It’s long-gop. Computer intensive.
If you have a capture card you can capture to another format.Chris Tompkins
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Sorry to come across with what seems like a sales pitch, but Premiere Pro CS4 is much, much slower than Premiere Pro CS5 and later. If you can upgrade, you’ll find large performance gains in many areas.
I recommend downloading the free 30-day trial version to see.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
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Todd, that’s funny, ’cause when I got the email from your response I was wondering why it’d sound like a sales pitch. Then when I saw the big, red “A” on the forum post it hit me.
My department is all getting new machines with CS5 suites over the next few months so I’ll definitely be looking forward to that. I appreciate the advice.
So I have been learning more about how bad HDV is. I’m trying to learn to change my workflow to get out of HDV. I got some advice to use MPEGStreamclip to convert but I don’t always have time and space. It’s not always practical for me to properly document clips and then just convert what I’m going to use, and if I try to convert a whole shoot, that’s a whole lotta megabites. It should work ok though if I just get a little more organized and better at keeping tidy notes. I rarely have “talent” in front of the camera. It’s usually department heads and such, so it’s pretty much a train wreck until I get some b-roll in there to hide all the nonsense I had to cut out.
So a capture card… Here’s what I usually do – Sony FX1 hooked with firewire to my MacBook Pro recording on to an external HD with OnLocation. Could I put one of these Black Magic or Kona dohickies in there to convert to a better format while recording? Would it just go between the camera and the computer? Because that would be awesome. It would cut the amount of time a project takes in half, easily.
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