Three hours to encode this 5 minute video. Is that to be expected?

[Duke Sweden]

PS, you know I don’t go fishing for “views”. I will post the occasional video here because I know it rarely results in much more than 3 or 5 extra views.

[Tero Ahlfors]

What footage do you have on the timeline? What kind of effects do you have on your clips? What are your _exact_ export settings?

[Duke Sweden]

In this instance my greenscreen was transcoded to DNxHD and those other f/x (dancing girls, helicopter, crazy guy) were downloaded from youtube so they were mp4, low quality at that.

Only effects were lumetri color correction and grading. Scaling of green screen characters.

Export settings 25 min 49 max bit rate.

[Duke Sweden]

I really wish you could edit your own comments here instead of adding more comments. Forgot to add, encoded to h264.

[Duke Sweden]

I just tried it, it brought me to where I could edit my previous post, but it said I wasn’t authorized to edit my own post. The noive!!!

[Steve Brame]

My first question would be – why the incredibly high data rate? Where is your finished video going to play?

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[Duke Sweden]

Because that’s what I’ve always read you should do. High bit rate. They only go to youtube. What bit rate do you suggest?

[Steve Brame]

I generally use the YouTube presets. Never had any problems. I’ll bet it will shorten your encode times considerably.

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[Duke Sweden]

Just tried it and it increased the file size from 76mb to 113mb. Tried encoding anyway and it took just as long. I’ve resigned myself to long encodes. Thanks for trying to cheer me up 😉

[Steve Brame]

The ‘YouTube 1080P HD’ presets in AME has a data rate of 16 target/16 max Mbps. There is no way that lowering your data rate from 25/49 to 16 will increase your encode time.

Are you encoding with AME CC 2015? Since you used the term ’25 min’, I’d suspect not, as AME CC 2015 doesn’t use a ‘minimum’ rate for H.264, but perhaps an older version did. Also, it would help to know a bit about your hardware, especially your graphics card. Is the Mercury Playback Engine able to use hardware mode, or software only?

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