Adobe Premiere Pro 2 render time

[gsh]

I'm trying out PP2 on a project - 90 minutes svhs PAL tape captured to DV-AVI via DAC100.
I adjusted colour, brightness etc during capture with my ACE, but found a 2 minute interview section that needed extra tweaking. I added proc-amp and colour correction filters for just this section using keyframes. The only actual editing is a still image fading into the start of the clip and a fade out at the end with some surplus footage at the end cut out.
Frameserving to TMPGEnc 2.5 2 pass vbr @ 6250 wav audio (I'll proces and convert the audio later). TMPGEnc is showing an estimated time of 20+ hrs. This is ridiculously high. Debugmode is showing the video progress as around 12% realtime.
I toggled off all the filters and frameserved again and it's estimating approx 3.5 hrs (Debugmode video progress approx 100% realtime).
Does 2 minutes of filters really add that much time to the encoding? Surely there is something wrong here.
Any advice greatly appreciated.

[daamon]

Hi gsh,

There's a number of factors at work here:

* Yes, filters can greatly increase the time.
* Running Premiere Pro, TMPGEnc and frameserving is gonna hamper performance.
* Have you turned off all other unnecessary processes: firewalls, virus protection, adware protection etc.?

I encountered the exact same problem. I got around it two ways: Changed to CinemaCraft Encoder and saved my project from Premiere Pro (1.5) to DV AVI on my large hard drive (similar to your set up).

Saving out to DV AVI didn't take anywhere near as long, and CCE is much faster than TMPGEnc.

[gsh]

Thanks for the reply.
Saving to DV-AVI gives a time of around the 18hr mark, no matter which DV codec I choose (MS/MainConcept/Canopus). It seems to be processing the whole file and not just the areas where there are edits/filters (no more than 5 minutes from the entire file). Is there a setting that I am overlooking?
(Exporting directly to mpeg using the CCE plugin gives times of 20+hrs - a little faster than frameserving but not much.)

[gsh]

I've found a way round it that works for now - for all I know this may be the recommended method!
Instead of just using the keyframes for the filters I have now spliced the section that requires treatment and disabled the filters on the rest of the clip (even though they were all set to default outside of the treatment area). A quick test exporting to DV AVI showed a time of less than 1/2 hr, and frameserving to TMPGEnc now seems to be able to encode the clip in under 3 hrs.
Result.

[daamon]

Applying an effect, filter etc. to a clip on the timeline does exactly that - it affects the entire clip. Cutting ("razor") the clip to produce a smaller clip that only needs attention is a reasonable way in my book...

Glad you got it sorted.