Why does Premiere Pro take so long to export????

[Thomas Henry]

What I’m saying is that it’s multiple times faster to export if you render first, rather than letting it do both at once. I’ve tested this many times. I know you CAN export without rendering, in the same way you CAN put Premiere CS5 on a 2006 iMac, it just won’t work well.

[Ryan Holmes]

[Thomas Henry] “I know you CAN export without rendering, in the same way you CAN put Premiere CS5 on a 2006 iMac, it just won’t work well.”

We are in heated agreement then! 😉

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
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[Rocco Guarino]

Use Previews (Smart Render) ONLY works with DVCPROHD, and some flavors of XDCAM.

It won’t use the preview files from a ProRes or H.264 sequence.

Submit a feature request here: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

[Thomas Henry]

It works with AVCHD sequences too, I work with .MTS files and that’s the only way I can get long projects exported in less than a day.

[Sean ian Macgowan]

I have the solution. I hope it makes you as happy as it does me.

1. Get Premiere Pro CC
2. Select the sequence preset for DNX220X
2a. Make sure the preview file format is set to DNX220X, but you shouldn’t have to do that manually as the preset is already configured
2b. Go to the radio button for “use maximum render quality” for preview files and turn that on
3. Edit using this sequence…using any format of source material
4. Render as you go, overnight, etc. during the course of the project – this creates “preview files” in the DNX220X MXF format…which WILL facilitate your final output, whereas creating “preview files” in some other formats WILL NOT facilitate the final output
5. Your “preview files” will be created in mastering quality and will serve in the same capacity as your full-quality “render files” used to within FCP7, helping you for a faster export when the time comes, and without any quality loss, because when you export the master output, it will not re-transcode the render files…instead, it will do like FCP7 used to…if your sequence was already rendered, it would just essentially “copy” the data, rather than recalculating everything
5a. Assuming you’re locked and everything has been rendered and you’re ready to output with nothing but a green bar atop the timeline….
6. Choose export media
7. select “match sequence settings”
8. select “use maximum render quality”
9. select “use previews”
10. jump around because you’re so happy…as you watch the progress bar move about 80% faster than the last time you exported a sequence

The output will occur in approximately 20% of the duration of your sequence’s total time. This output will be of the DNXHD220X codec and MXF file type. It looks excellent and solves a huge problem.

Now, all of you FCP7 folks can carry on as though you were using FCP7…in that you can render overnight as you go, and have those render files help save you time when exporting the master.

Thank you Adobe for a fantastic Premiere Pro upgrade in Premiere Pro CC. You knocked it out of the park with this one.

[Thomas Henry]

I appreciate you taking the time to address my question. Thanks! I’m not saying you sound like a shill for adobe, but that seems like a lot to buy and do just to emulate FCP7, right? Why bother if you have to leave it rendering overnight anyway? Also, wouldn’t you have to convert MXF format to Quicktime to be able to convert it to other formats? How long does that take or is that even possible?

[Ryan Holmes]

[Thomas Henry] “Also, wouldn’t you have to convert MXF format to Quicktime to be able to convert it to other formats?”

Premiere can handle MXF files natively with no need to transcode. Remember MXF is just a wrapper, like Quicktime. MXF can hold a variety of codecs, just like Quicktime.

The benefit of rendering as you work is that the latest version of Premiere will grab those renders and pack them into your final export, provided you check the “use previews” box, which will greatly reduce the time it takes to spit out a final file. This is essentially what FCP7 did with ProRes, it’s just that Adobe added several codecs to the list that could do this now in Premiere CC (ProRes being the newest, I think DNxHD started to have this capability in CS6). If you’re an ex-FCPer who has migrated to Premiere it means that you can work very similarly to before.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost