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Why does Rendering take so long?
If someone could assist, that would be great. I want to take some hour long Coaching Video .avi files in premiere and turn them into 720 X 480 so I can import them as a timeline in Encore. When I import them into Premiere Pro so I can change the resolution, they take quite a long time to Render and I don’t understand why. A 50 minute coaching lesson on video is around 99000 frames. To Render them as an .avi file at 720 X 480 in 80 % Quality in Microsoft AVI format is taking close to (3) three hours. This is way too long.
What affects the rendering time? My Processor and Ram, or Graphics Card, or what? I currently run a Pent 4 2.4Gig HT Processor and Intel Board, 1.5gigs of 400Mhz DDR2 Ram, 3 Hard Drives on IDE ATA, 40 gig, 80 gig, and 250 gig. Is Premiere a bad choice for rendering video?
Your help is much appreciated!
-JP
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do you mean you want to convert the AVI files to MPEG-2 to import into Encore?
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What kind of AVI are they encoded as? DivX or some other export codec? Or something captured right from a camera?
Steven
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JP… what I do is convert the files to the DV format before attempting to use them in Premiere. I use either the free program, Virtualdub or the for pay program, Tmpgenc. I’m sure you can also use Premiere to convert the video files.
I’ll use the converted video files in my project. It may take a minute to do the initial conversion. However, subsequent use of the video files should not present any significant problems.
— L. James
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L. D. James
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What is the original source of the coaching videos? I’m trying to understand why you’re converting them to DV. It may be the DV files you create with Virtualdub or Tmpgenc are DV Type 1. I don’t think PPro likes DV Type 1, only DV Type 2. You could try downloading a free DV Type converter. It would add the additional audiotrack missing in Type 1 so you can load your DV files into PPro.
-AJ
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How are you doing, AJ.
I just checked the video that I converted using Virtualdub and Tmpgenc. All the information that I can find about them are exactly as the information I can get from the video that comes directly from my DV camera.
I don’t see an option to display the DV type. Can you tell me how to check the DV type?
The quality of my DV output might have something to do with the fact that I use the Mainconcept’s DV codec.
By the way, what other “Free” program do you know that are in the league of Virtualdub and Tmpgenc? I’d be glad to check out and compare and alternative. Truchiller never said he was using one of those. He might be interested in your alternate program from the ones I suggested also.
— L. James
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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
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Try this tool and see if it helps.
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Canopus_DV_File_Converter
-AJ
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Victorypoint. Thanks for the suggested conversion utility. It seems to fall short of Virtualdub and Tmpgenc. I had captured a flight simulator session using a program called Fraps. It created an .avi file of which I’ll use in my TV show. The utility from your link would not accept the file. It will not accept mpeg files either. A file seems to have to already be in DV format for it to accept the file.
I’ll be curious if anyone can advise me of how to tell whether a file is in type 1 or type 2 DV format.
Thanks in advance for anyone that has any suggestions.
— L. James
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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
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Sorry for the confusion ljames. I thought you were the fellow (truchiller) trying to convert the coaching videos. It appears I got you two confused and thought you were the same person. Anyways ljames, keep doing what you were doing and sorry for the confusion. Fraps is good software and will output mpeg or divx so you don’t need to use the Canopus DV Type convertor.
-AJ
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Victorypoint. Thanks for the suggested conversion utility. It seems to fall short of Virtualdub and Tmpgenc. I had captured a flight simulator session using a program called Fraps. It created an .avi file of which I’ll use in my TV show. The utility from your link would not accept the file. It will not accept mpeg files either. A file seems to have to already be in DV format for it to accept the file.
I’ll be curious if anyone can advise me of how to tell whether a file is in type 1 or type 2 DV format.
Thanks in advance for anyone that has any suggestions.
— L. James
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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
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Everybody, sorry for the double post. I was checking the spelling of my message and made a mistake and submitted it twice.
Anyway, Victorypoint. thanks again for the link and the input.
— L. James
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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
http://www.apollo3.com/~ljames
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