Why do my premiere pro cs6 renders take so long?

[Bob Dix]

Yes, I have not done that on our Macs, but, now use Windows as well, nearly all the time.On an i7 Dell Precision Server XEON Quad Core 64 bit we have had no issues. Under accessories you should be able to ask the system to clean up your “C” drive, all your files could be scattered anywhere with complex work , although I would hardly call what you have done in Effects, that..

We have had a case where the security system was compromised and completely destabilized our system.Just disconnect and shut it down for a while ?

Did you get rid of fcp and do a clean install of CS6 and get the upgrade ? And, I think you should have a Nvidia Quadro FX4000 (or better) the Apple Mac video card installed, but, if you say the Mercury Engine is running you would have the right card, make sure it is not on software only ?That could be slow with certain effects and general rendering ?

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AUSTRALIA

[Jeff Pulera]

Bob,

The guy has an iMac so cannot use the Quadro 4000, or any Nvidia card for that matter…when he said he is using Mercury, I bet that is “Software” mode and not “GPU”.

Jeff

[Brent Dunn]

Looks like you have the i3 dual core processor. You really need at least a quad core and a good video card. What video card is in there?

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

Sony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro
with Final Cut Studio Adobe CS6 Production

[Joey Sperber]

ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory

[Walter Soyka]

[Jeff Pulera] “The guy has an iMac so cannot use the Quadro 4000, or any Nvidia card for that matter…when he said he is using Mercury, I bet that is “Software” mode and not “GPU”.”

To go a little further on the terminology, you can’t NOT use the Mercury Playback Engine. It can be either software-only or hardware-accelerated depending on your GPU, but it is always on.

Mercury Playback Engine does not refer specifically to GPU acceleration or CUDA/OpenCL processing. It’s a confusing catch-all term, a bit of marketing-speak to refer to a whole collection of performance improvments introduced in Pr CS5.

As usual, Todd Kopriva explains it better than I can:

https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Nick Brown]

Joey,
I suspect your GPU is the problem.

I was using a similar ATI card with a Q9450 CPU. It worked well with CS4. When I upgraded to CS5.5 so many things went bad and the culprit was the ATI 4850 card. I switched to the Nvidia 560Ti and CS5.5 loved it. Upgrading to CS6, I had problems until 6.03 update solved them. I’m able to ad the card to the Cuda Supported list but this must be done every time Premiere is updated.

[Ishamel Moo]

am Just a Junior designer,after the struggle with my Cs5.5 taking hours of rendering i stumbled nto some guys comments from the forum and made things super easy for me…, i did the following:
1-used an external drive (terror) for storage(export)
2-made sure my macbook Air had enough space
3-on my export settings i made sure that the source range is n the entire sequence form

4-deselected the use maximum render quality ,use previews,use frame blending

5.work with less crazy transitions like dissolve and others

im so happy with my Cs and im rendering videos fast,i hope this will help,any video format mpeg.mts etc

[Raymond Wolters]

weird, I have NVIDIA cards on ALL my MacPros … why dont you let the folks who know what they are talking about weigh in.