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Rendering improves when done in small “chunks”
Anyone know why my timeline is much more prone to crashing when rendered (preview, enter key)in small pieces vs. all at once. When attempting to preview render the whole timeline, it often has errors. When workspace is set to short pieces it is much better. Anyone know why this might be and/or how to avoid the situation? Thanks.
Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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It may be that your drives are causing a bottleneck, or a lack of RAM. Or both. Or, could it be possible that the media cache drive is FAT32 instead of NTFS?
Steven
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The media cache drive is NTSF. The media raid is CDFS, it’s a raid 0 (striped) internal. How else would the drives cause a bottleneck? I’ve got 4GB of RAM, but being a 32 bit windows system, I’m not sure how much of that can actually be accessed.
Drives should not be fragmented much, I keep them defragged regularly, but the media raid is running low on space, working on making more now. But I think this problem existed when I had as much as 150-200GB free.
I often leave After Effects open while rendering the Premiere timeline. It may be my imagination, but it seems like if might crash less with both open if that makes any sense. I could be wrong about that. The Premier timeline has a ton of After Effects comps on it.
It would be great to have some light shed on the situation.
System specs:
Win XP SP2
CS3 Production Premium (Premiere v3.1.0(374)
Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5345 2.33GHz 1333MHz 8MB CPU
Kingston (4x1GB) DDR2-667 PC-5400 ECC Registered Memory
C drive (media cache currently) Western Digital 160GB SATA II 7200rpm 8MB Hard Drive
Media raid Western Digital (4x250GB) SATA II 7200rpm 8MB Video Storage Drive, Raid 0 Internal
Graphics card PNY nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 2DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card
Video capture Matrox Axio LEScott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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I doubt anyone will come up with a magic solution. Render in smaller chunks. Then at some point, stop using Dynamic Link and export out of After Effects and use the results in Premiere Pro.
Steven
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Alright, thanks. Dynamic link is great, speeds up workflow. Oh, well, thanks for your advice.
Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
ruccipro.com
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