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    Long Compression Time Question

    Posted by Kevin Sio on January 25, 2013 at 3:40 pm

    For client review, I am outputting a 40 min timeline with a timecode burn in. The original media is P2, I am outputting to WMV. I am putting a pretty good squeeze on it with the Media Encoder, from 1920×1080 to 360×240 and it looks like the compression time is going to be well over 5 hours.

    Looking for ideas on making this quicker…is it my work flow? Should I have transcoded the original P2s to a different codex?

    I am using Premiere 5.5.

    thanks – Kevin

    Kevin Sio
    Videographer/Editor
    Corporate Affairs
    National Grid

    Kevin Sio replied 13 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Chris Tompkins

    January 25, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    If your media is P2 and you want to go to WMV, that is what you do.
    Encoding to something else in between is just going to add more compression.
    Now, your data rate and audio rate will effect rendering times some.
    A screaming computer is the best choice.

    Chris

  • Paul King

    January 26, 2013 at 2:19 am

    Hi Kevin

    can you check your CPU usage in task manager while you’re exporting?
    See if it’s low – say around 25%. If this is the case, turn off GPU rendering in Project settings and retry.

  • Kevin Sio

    January 31, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    Thanks to Chris and Paul for responding. After some experimentation I belive that this is as good as I can expect. BTW, the Media Encoder does a fine job.

    Kevin Sio
    Videographer/Editor
    Corporate Affairs
    National Grid

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