Rendering takes so long. Why? (Adobe 1.5)

[Vince Becquiot]

It all depends on the kind of effects you are applying, the format you are rendering to, and well.., the amount of stuff you have on that computer.

Vince

[Mike Velte]

a dual core Pentium will render about 3X faster than you Ford Falcon straight 6.

[Georgerm]

Thanks for the reply Vincent.

The only effects are transistions and DVD music.

What do you mean by format? mpeg1? Mpeg 2 wont’t play on the DVD player.

The hard drive is pretty much free. Do I need a faster hard drive?

What if I put in 500 megs more of ram and get AdobePP 2?

George

[Georgerm]

Thanks Mike for the reply:

When I get serious about video editing, then I will get a new computer with a dual core pentium. I may start a business and do videos for weddings and special occasions. Then I will upgrade.

Right now I think I have a 4 year old Mustang with 60,000 miles. It works but won’t win any races.

George

[Vince Becquiot]

Well, do you mean rendering the timeline, or exporting. Let’s say that you captured DV and exporting to Mpeg2, then, on your machine, you should probably expect at least 3 hours of rendering for each hour of footage (without effects).

The CPU is what usually takes most of the rendering load, so an upgrade is probably what would make a real difference.

Also, separating things in two or even three drives if you currently only have one should definitely help a little. What you really want is to seperate your OS and the video / media parts of your project.

To find out if you need more ram (on XP / Win 2000), do a Ctrl.Alt.Del during a render, then go to task manager > performance, look under Physical Memory and see if there is any left next to available.

A faster drive always helps, but after the memory upgrade, you are basically spending what you could be saving for your next upgrade, and if your CPU can’t keep up, there isn’t much else that will make any significant improvements.

Vince