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Slow Render in CS4 from AVCHD Footage
I recently shot some footage on my AG-HMC 150 in HE 1080/60i mode to get the most space from my card and because quality wasn’t necessarily of importance for this project. When I brought the footage into Premiere (CS4) and went to render it I noticed it was going to take an exorbitant amount of time to render. For 29 minutes of footage it took me over an hour to render. Obviously not efficient. Was it the format in which it was shot? I had it on a NTSC WS sequence.
How much of my OS is to blame? XP Professional 2002 SP3 with Intel Core 2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz and 3 GB of RAM. I recently just started this job and was ‘given’ this computer to edit on. How outdated am I here? I convinced my new employer to purchase the camera, CS4 and other equipment recently and I’d need to find a confident way to tell them they need to spend more money for a more efficient system for me to edit on. Any advice will help, thanks!
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Quad core i7 920 or faster, 4gigs or more of ram, 8-16gigs optimum, Win7 Home Premium64 or Pro64, a raid array if you play on doing many layers.
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Hi Robert,
1 hour for 30 minutes of footage in rendering time is actually quite good for that machine. I imagine you didn’t have Max render as you would be looking at quite a few hours.
Just remember that you are editing HD, in a format that is likely the most CPU demending of all.
Adding more CPUs is basically the way to improve render times. An i7 would be a nice upgrade, as well at a minimum of 8 Gigs of RAM.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Thanks for dropping the knowledge guys, you informed me quite a bit. Now to have that talk with the boss…
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