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Should my exports be taking this long?
Hi,
So I have a project in CS4. It’s in DV and 15 minutes long. I’m done editing it and I go to export. I choose to export to Quicktime in the DV codec. It’s taking 5 hours + to encode. I know a lot of other people have been complaining about long export times. Is this in line with everyone else’s complaints?
I’m a regular FCP user using the 30 day trial on a Imac Intel 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2 GBs of Ram. Premiere Pro is updated to 4.2.
Does exporting it uncompressed get any faster results for anyone? Is there anything else that can make this faster? I’m coming up against a deadline and can’t afford such slow render times.
-Jeremy
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4 Replies
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This is not normal. I would guess you have accidentally ticked the blur option at the encoder settings. That will kill your render times.
If this isn’t the case what kind of effects do you have in the project?
– jon
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Nope. No Blur.
Lots of text with slow moves (position and scale). The editor that I inherited this project from used Basic 3D for every single simple text move. I thought THAT was causing such long export times. However, I removed them all yesterday and did simple moves on them and it still takes 5 hours. Oh beyond text, I have several photos with position and scale keyframes on them.
The exports look good at least. It would be great if I could make them happen just a little faster.
I just know a similar project in FCP wouldn’t take nearly as long. A fifth of the time at best.
-Jeremy
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“Noise Reduction” is also a render killer.
Beyond that, are you using large stills (more than 2x raster size)?
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I ended up just having to render it overnight. Noise Reduction was off. There were a couple of photos that were 2x raster but most of them weren’t.
The project is done now and it was successful. It would have been interesting to cut a new sample project in both FCP and Premiere just to compare the render speeds. Oh well, I don’t have access to Premiere right now to try.
Thanks for the input!
Best,
Jeremy
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