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  • Quicktime exporter is broken/slow all of a sudden

    Posted by Mozwald on April 20, 2007 at 7:04 am

    Ive been using quicktime exporter for easy fast h264 compressed videos. Usually 30second to 2min videos will render out to my seperate raid 0 scratch disk in about 30 seconds to a min, sometimes a little more.

    All of a sudden the exporting is now horrible and slow…AND the video’s it renders out arent even a real readable file by my PC, i cannot open any of them.

    Ive tried exporting to AVI or other formats and its all the same speed no matter what codec I use. The first 8% instantly loads then it just drags.

    Ive tried updating the software, but that didnt help…I have done nothing to change this.

    What is going on?

    Mozwald replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Rich Rubasch

    April 20, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    More info needed…..what platform? Have you updated ANY software recently?

    Give us some system specs, including what kind of files you are using to encode etc. Frame rate/size.

    Rich Rubasch
    Tilt Media

  • Mozwald

    April 20, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    PC windows XP
    No new software for the last month
    Im exporting avi or mov files from premiere AND after effects, either compressed with a codec or no compression.

    Ive tried opening and exporting older files that i know took only about 10 seconds to export from quicktime. No matter what codec i choose, or what file type i open up for exporting. They all jump to 8% then slow down.

    The encoding time is the same no matter what settings i choose, ive tried exporting and mov, avi, mp4, etc, but its the same each time.

    At first i thought it was my raid array, but i used mpegstreamclip and it was instant as opposed to 10x the time for quicktime (which it wasnt a few days ago)

  • Rich Rubasch

    April 20, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    Coup0le things to try…..send the encoded clip to a different drive. Try changing a preference then changing it back. Kind of resets the prefs file. Try exporting to a different codec. If you have been exporting audio, try exporting video only.

    Hmmm, that’s all I have.

    Rich Rubasch
    Tilt Media

  • Mozwald

    April 21, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    just tried all those things, nothing fixed.

    no matter what video, size, or codec im using it always jumps to 8% then becomes slower than mud.

    I guess the only thing to do is uninstall and hope that it fixes itself to the original speed.

  • Mozwald

    April 21, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    uninstalled and still the same problems….the only thing that comes to mind that i have done differently is the installation of mpegstreamclip and capturing video with PP2.0

    maybe one of those things messed it up…

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