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MRQ – Why so long, seriously?!
Just a nag. Rendered a 6 minute video here for example in .mp4, 1920×1080, VBR 2Pass and 10M but rate, 50M max.
Now, that would normally take around 15 minutes to render, but as soon as I enable MRQ I get 2 hours for the same exact footage. How does it justify the 8x more render time?
It just nags me. I know I don’t have a nVidia GPU, had ATI forever, so can’t benefit from GPU acceleration (why adobe!) but the CPU is running @ 4.4GHz with 8GB system ram and it’s a fairly high end system -.-
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whats the source footage and sequence setting?
If it’s prores quicktime, that alone will severely slow things down.
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Make sure you even need MRQ. It’s really just an advanced mix of scaling and motion estimated sharpening for those who are scaling HD > SD, etc.
From Adobe:
Maximum Render Quality
Maintains sharp detail when scaling from large formats to smaller formats, or from high-definition to standard-definition formats. Maximum Render Quality maximizes the quality of motion in rendered clips and sequences. Selecting this option often renders moving assets more sharply.At maximum quality, rendering takes more time, and uses more RAM than at the default normal quality. Select this option only on systems with sufficient RAM. The Maximum Render Quality option is not recommended for systems with the minimum required RAM.
Maximum Render Quality often makes highly compressed image formats, or those containing compression artifacts, look worse because of sharpening.
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Hi Steve,
Ditto on not needing MRQ for your export, is for scaling.
What processor do you have? The “4.4 Ghz” means nothing if it’s a dual core or something 😉
I have a two-year-old Core i7-2600 with 16GB and Nvidia GTX 470 and HD exports to H.264 are about realtime. If you have a Core i7 already, you might find it really worthwhile to look into the Nvidia upgrade as my understanding is that the GPU accelerates the H.264 outputs.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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