[Fred Grasset]

Hi,

It turns out that PPro Cs4 is the culprit for the slow slow render. I imported some MXF files into cs4, like I do twice or three times a week and I wanted to render from 720 24p mxf to 360X640 h.264 mpeg4. Everything seems pretty banal to this point, I know that the render would take 15 to 35 minutes for a five minute clip. So I happily added to the Media Encoder a queue of 8 – 5 minutes clips. I Left the computer alone and went shopping. Come back two hours later and check on my render queue….Gosh it says 8 hours and 35 minutes to render the first clip of 8. I immediately stop the rendering. Bouhou! My machine is broken. After defragging, hours trying to remove all the non-essential processes for winbdow XP -Yes the CPU was going 100 % all the time , relocating all the file on my internal HD, it done on me to check the similarity between this week rendering and last week rendering. Bingo! I use the color correction RGB in the premiere pro effect bin for the latest rendering. This was my bad boy and now that I have removed this effect I can happily render ever after in 20 minutes or less because of everything I learned thru your fabulous website. Software can be a problem. Beware.