rendering STILL takes forever - even with RDRAM and 2.4 GHz

[megaman]

With my new system -

2.4 GHz Pentium 4 533 MHz FSB
512 MB 1066 RDRAM
Two WD 7200 8 MB cache HDs
Canopus ADVC-100 capture device



...When I try to render something in Adobe Premiere, it takes AGES to complete!!! No exaggeration. This is not any different than my 400 MHz 130 MB SDRAM machine. I can't believe I spent all this money and it still takes forever to render an effect. Yes, I have heard of real-time cards - but shouldn't this setup make any difference? In my case, it doesn't look like it.. I'm ashamed that I put a lot of time and research in this machine, and took a lot of other people's time to help me - and it does nothing new for me. I give up...

[arcorob]

It should not take ages.

Let me give you some sample ( I have a 2.4 gig p4 with 533 bus, 1 gig memory) Also the hard drives make a difference too. DONT render to the same drive the source is.

Using TMPG on an 1.5 hour video takes about 3 to 4 hours.

Same with most others. Thats AVI to MPEG 2 for DVD.

Now if I turn on noise reduction, 33 hours.

I only use adobe for capture, but check your render settings and your hard drive.

[megaman]

How do I check render settings? EDIT: nevermind, I already found out..

The footage is being rendered to the hard drive that contains the OS and the Premiere program itself, not the source capture drive. The OS hard drive is 40 gigs and is on the same channel as the second 120 gig hard drive (which shows up as 111 GB for some weird reason)

I just rendered a 5 minute movie in premiere that took about 15 minutes..It's rendering about a frame a second..(I'm just estimating by what I saw..) The final render of the footage looks "solarized", something went wrong..

[megaman]

Transitions don't even show up at all, even after rendering..

[curryman]

if your using premier i'm guessing your pretty experienced with editing but just check that you haven't got some kind of picture effect enabled. that could explain the lengthy time and solarizing effect

[bvcproductions]

Yeah, make sure you haven't accidently switched any filters on.

I've got 1.0GHz Intel Pentium 4, 40Gb HDD at 4700RPM and it takes me about 15-20mins to export a 15min video without any effects, so there's probably something wrong with your settings or something.[/b]