Insane export times

[Mario Mattei]

Brilliant.

I’m glad I took the time to write to these forums.

As a photographer I help others like this. As a filmmaker I get to receive b/c I don’t have much to offer yet–hah, hah. When I can, though, I too will “pay it forward”.

shine though, bro,
Mario

[Jeff Meyer]

Something to keep in mind – every time you change something away from the native settings you’re adding another step to the export process. Rule of thumb is the closer to your sequence settings you work, the faster the export will be.

If the footage is 24p and you export 15fps the computer now has to interpolate the motion from 24p to 15fps. This probably added more to your render time than anything else.

Scaling depends on the size you’re going from and the size you’re going to in terms of its potential to change render time. In general it’s best to leave it at the native size, but if you drop from 1080 to 360 it could help out. I wouldn’t go smaller than 640×360 – even for previews.

For my work I usually kick out a computationally simple codec (Animation, ProRes422, DNxHD, XDCAM50 – though XDCAM isn’t computationally simple I suppose) at full size, then I go to Media Encoder and turn my master into a web version at whatever resolution I need. Then I have the full quality copy already do, and converting videos in AME is fast.

[Mario Mattei]

Yes, 95% of the clips have combinations of Colorista II, Misfire vignette, & Cosmo, all Magic Bullet effects.

My 360p video (a 1080p sequence, nested into a 360p one, then exported ‘same as sequence’) just took 3 hours 45 mins.

It’s 3.7GB and now I’ve got to get it uploaded to vimeo for the client within 6 hours. Maybe the 1080p would have exported faster (as per the logic discussed in this thread). I just thought the 360p would be a smaller size to begin with and that ensuing 360p exports for web would also be smaller… so that’s the direction I’m going right now.

thanks for your help… any thoughts or tips is always much appreciated!

Mario

[Michael Hendrix]

Mario, sorry have no real suggestions. We are in the same boat of evaluating Premiere vs Avid and the render times are abit on the extreme side. I know that Magic Bullet does take longer to render so I feel some of your slow times are because of your plugins and some maybe finding the right workflow and then some maybe just Premiere takes longer.

I was told by someone to think of it as a render tax. With Final Cut, you paid the tax up front with log and transfer. With Premiere you pay the tax on the backside because their is no log and transfer. Don’t know how true but it does make sense.

[Sam Golbach]

Hi there. I’ve had exact the same problem as you. Exporting times of sometimes 12 hours. I finally found the solution, It’s so logical. Just use Adobe Media Encoder! Is comes with Premiere so you definitely have it installed. You can even import your Premiere Sequences. Good luck man!

[Bob Spez]

Mr. Sam,
You are the only one on this or any other forum that had the answer to this question of insane CS6 export times which I have been researching and testing all day today.

Everyone else is ignoring the elephant in the room (for me it was 90 minutes to export a 1 minute 1080P 1920×1080 29fps video).

You my friend had the answer. I opened the export media window, checked the use same settings as sequence box, and then used the Queue option instead of the Export option to open the CS6 media encoder program. I used the upper left corner arrow to change format to h.264 .mp4 and selected 1080P 1920×1080 from the scroll down choices.

The 1 minute sequence was encoded in 18 minutes instead of 90!!!

The videos done in export and through media encoder look the same.
Heres the details:

1. Through Export.. 1920×1080,16095kbps, 29fps, 48kHz stereo-190 kbps.
2. Through queue to Media encoder…1920×1080,34178kbps, 48kHz stereo-190 kbps.

The media encoder mp4 file is twice the size of the export mp4 file due to double the bit rate, but that’s not a disadvantage, if anything it is an advantage.

Thanks a million. CS6 Premiere Pro is now encoding 5 times faster, and that is with a puny 1.4GHZ HP Slimline PC with a bottom of the line AMD E1-2500 CPU with built in Radeon Graphics GPU and 16 GB of RAM.

Mr. Sam you have made my day! Thanks!!!

[Sam Golbach]

Glad to hear that man. Media Encoder Saved my productions many times since. Sometimes it even says: Error compiling movie in Premiere, so I send it to Encoder and it works.

For some reason it over complicates the files in Premiere because it has too many insights or something?

Any way, Adobe will never my faultless so we gotta help one other. 😉

Cheers!

[Bob Spez]

Cheers Sam!