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Should it take 12 hours to encode 45 minuted?
I have a timeline that is 45 minutes. DV Widescren (captured HDV Downcoverted to DV) Very simple edits.. The main clip has a brightness/contrast filter on it, as well as 3 way color corrector. I cut away to a graphic (a large .tiff file animated on the timeline) a few times. But otherwise this is a very simple project.
The entire timeline is rendered. (Hit Enter) Which took overnight.
Now I am exporting to a WMV file. It has elapsed 1 hour and says it has 11 more to go. Is this normal?
Dell Pentium 4 Dual 3.2ghz
4gb Ram
10k SCSI Hard Drives in a RAID
Nvidia QuadroFX 4500 Video Card
PPro CS4thanks
matt rickman -
7 Replies
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It’s possible. The tiff file maybe what’s throwing of you render, if it i scaled below 50%. Other render killers would includes blur and noise reduction.
Vince Becquiot
Director | EditorKaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Pentium 4….large TIFF file….yep….it would take a long time, but 12 hours…that is a bit strange.
See if you can’t encode it without the TIFF file or with a small resolution of it and see how long it takes.
If that is the culprit, think you can just make the tiff an avi file and bring that into the project instead?
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OK.. So I just got into my office.. And it is still encoding. It has gone over 19 hours so far and says it has and hour and a half to go.
The tif file is used about 3 minutes of the 45 minute timeline.
Is my system the weak link here?
matt
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is the project a DV sequence with HDV clips on it, all scaled down?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Hi tim,
No. I captured widescreen DV (Downconverted in camera from HDV)thanks
matt -
There must be something else going on here. That render time makes no sense.
What other types of stuff is installed in the machine?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Your Computer is the weak link here and the tiff too. You should have resized and converted the file to a targa. Tiff is for printing and struggles in video editing applications due to the resolution and size. Premiere pro works good with a quad core without hassles, so you might think of upgrading your board and procesor.
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