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slow rendering anomoly
This is rather ancient history – for various reasons I still use CS3, but maybe someone can help anyway.
I’ve imported a movie, set up a comp and exported it, and it takes about 40 mins, which is fine.But I’ve got quite a few movies to export as separate comps, so I imported them all and set up a comp for each. Now each one is taking about 8 HOURS to export. If I remove everything from the Project window apart from one comp and one movie, it renders at a decent speed again.
What’s going on? I’d like to be able to batch render all these comps rather than doing one at a time.
ThanksPaddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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4 Replies
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“Export as comps”? I’m not understanding what you trying to do: What file format are you trying to export as?
I would likely suggest Media Encoder, but unsure of what you’re trying to accomplish.
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Difficult to identify the root cause without more info: system specs, sequence settings, project complexity, codec, etc. One definite issue is that CS3 was designed for a 32-bit OS, so memory is quite likely one of constraints. Also, HDD/SSD might be slowing you down. How full are your drives?
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Sorry for unclear specs and terminology, folks. I’m turning a collection of ProRes LT and DV-PAL files into 720p AIC files.
I think I may have worked it out – I went to prefs and deleted all caches and databases, and moved them to my biggest disk (though I had around 70GB free on the disk where it was cacheing before).
It seemed to be rendering (I’m just adding some curves) at a more sensible rate (2.5 hours, rather than 28 that it was predicting yesterday), but I’ve just checked it and it’s crashed! 🙁
Thankfully I’ve been saved (again) by the wonderful JES Deinterlacer.Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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Another consideration is reading and writing on the same disc, it would be faster to read from one disc and write to a different one, if that is possible in your setup.
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