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Premiere Video Preview render times.
Hi,
I’ve been using Premiere Pro CS3 to compile a load of time-lapse sequences over the past few weeks. Due to the size of the photographs and the amount of sequences I have taken, I decided to get a dedicated 1TB internal drive.
I opted for a 1TB Seagate Barracuda which now holds all footage and project files. I have been experiencing very slow render times when trying to view a video preview inside Premiere. I’ve done stacks of reading around here and various other sites but it’s always more beneficial when you know exactly what people are responding to..
So my query is that if Premiere is best having a sole drive, strictly for video-previews/cache, and I currently have all scratch disks set as ‘Same as project’, is it ideal for me to create a partition on the new drive and have this new partition used only for scratch disks?
Would that make any difference or would scratch disks need to be totally on their own drive?
I’ve never experienced render times like these for only video previews, and was expecting an improvement after installing the new drive. I’m getting about a frame rendered per 3 seconds for only still images.
I hope I explained myself well enough,
Windows XP, Premiere Pro CS3, AMD Athlon64 x2, 2.21GHz, 2.87GB RAM.
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1 Reply
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Drive speed / assignment will play a role, but a very small one with pictures.
Scaling images down more than 50% will kill any render in Premiere. Depending on the amount of zooming in you are doing, you may be better off doing a scale down automated batch in Photoshop.
The Photoshop scaling will also be of a much better quality than Premiere.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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