Slow Exports

[Alex Smith]

Thanks again. This type of support in a public forum like the Cow is not something I’m used to coming from Apple. Still love their OS, but I digress.

Thanks for the link to performance as well- I like how it’s not all about hardware. I’m dreaming that Adobe adds OpenCL support to the Mercury Playback Engine, but I’m also poised to get a new set-up when I really need to.

I guess the bottom line with the slow export is simply that’s just how it is? I love the fact that I don’t waste time transcoding, and I’ll be more conservative about what I render from now on and enjoy that. But for the last 12 years in FCP, I started working in DV25, rendered when I had to and quickly exported. Then I moved on to DVCPRO HD with the same story. Eventually, Red and DSLRs forced me into the multi-day joy of transcoding to ProRes, but again, once over that hump, an export took a few minutes on most projects. It simply was not something I had to think about. Is this just not a reality for Premiere, or am I still missing something?

[Todd Kopriva]

I suppose that I’ve never been bothered by Premiere Pro’s export times because I come from the world of visual effects and compositing, in which many renders take much, much longer.

I tend to add batches of items to Adobe Media Encoder and then go on about other work or leave the exporting and encoding process to take place over a break or overnight.

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[Alex Smith]

Yeah, I’ve used After Effects for years, but only for shots that are a few seconds long. I’ve spent most of my time with FCP since it came out, and exports have always been quick if your timeline was rendered (which you normally wanted to do before exporting because if you didn’t, it only rendered for the export and you lost all that time and the render files). But either way, short-form stuff (where I work mostly) only takes a few minutes to export. I didn’t have to plan for that break or overnight process. I’d just go read half an article on the internet and then start compressing or uploading my edit.

Anyway, thanks for the help. As long as it’s working like it should, I’ll just get used to it. It’s still a much better choice for me than Kamikaze Cut Pro X. I expected some changes in workflow.