Decreasing render time in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

[Xenoun]

Hello,

As mentioned in the title, I'm trying to decrease my render time. I'm current;y using adobe premiere pro cs5.5. The main use I get out of it is editing and rendering videos I post to youtube. For a 30 minute video it takes around 2-2.5hrs to render. This isn't too bad as I render overnight in general and it's a lot faster than VirtualDub which I started out with.

I'm just wondering what are the general things you can change to decrease the render time either in premiere or in hardware for my pc as I'm considering buying more ram soon. I'm not too concerned about my render settings as a friend who does videos for a living gave me his settings, but his render times take all of 10-15 minutes which makes me think its a hardware issue.

I use fraps to record gameplay in 50fps, I then use the HDV 720p 30fps codec to render and the output file is in 30fps. Target bitrate is 3 with the max at 4. I'm not really sure what else has an effect on render rate, but any help is much appreciated.


My pc specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
Intel Core i5 3.2GHz quad core
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
Geforce GTX 460

[aedipuss]

why not ask the friend what his system specs are if he can render the same thing 10x faster?

but what i'd say is get at least 2 more ssd or 7200rpm hard drives(one for source one for destination) that don't have the o.s. on them and have a/v turned off. then i'd get a faster video card for cs to use for rendering. maybe also look into overclocking that i5 to 4ghz if it's a "k" model.

[turk690]

Hello,

As mentioned in the title, I'm trying to decrease my render time. I'm current;y using adobe premiere pro cs5.5. The main use I get out of it is editing and rendering videos I post to youtube. For a 30 minute video it takes around 2-2.5hrs to render. This isn't too bad as I render overnight in general and it's a lot faster than VirtualDub which I started out with.

I'm just wondering what are the general things you can change to decrease the render time either in premiere or in hardware for my pc as I'm considering buying more ram soon. I'm not too concerned about my render settings as a friend who does videos for a living gave me his settings, but his render times take all of 10-15 minutes which makes me think its a hardware issue.

Those rendering times are on par. But to improve it the first I'll do is add system RAM; minimum I'd be caught dead with is 8GB. Then I'll check if that installation of Premiere Pro duly recognizes your graphics card such that mercury hardware acceleration can be, and is enabled. Although only certain official nVidia cards are recognized and automatically enabled for hardware assist in rendering, there sites and techniques in them devoted to enabling yours if it's not on the list (like the GTS450 I use). In general, apart from a supported nVidia chipset, it has to have 1GB of ram or more. Lastly, if you really want faster than real-time blazing fast rendering ersatz, then maybe you need a hardware card for that, like pricey Matrox compressHD PCI-e card.

[Xenoun]

I've asked my friend what his specs are, he has a crazy computer because like I said he does video stuff for a living.

Looks like if I get more ram and sort out an SSD drive or two it should help. I was already considering these options, but I don't want to spend a lot of money to improve render time as this is just a hobby for me. If I could get it down to about 30min render time I'd be happy.

With my graphics card, it has 2GB of ram. I'm happy with it so far, don't think I really need a new one.


Thanks for the responses though, I have some things to think about now. I'll see if I can figure out where the mercury hardware acceleration thing is and find out if it's on or not.

[aedipuss]

I've asked my friend what his specs are, he has a crazy computer because like I said he does video stuff for a living.

Looks like if I get more ram and sort out an SSD drive or two it should help. I was already considering these options, but I don't want to spend a lot of money to improve render time as this is just a hobby for me. If I could get it down to about 30min render time I'd be happy.

With my graphics card, it has 2GB of ram. I'm happy with it so far, don't think I really need a new one.


Thanks for the responses though, I have some things to think about now. I'll see if I can figure out where the mercury hardware acceleration thing is and find out if it's on or not.

not with your card except if you used an unofficial patch that was around for awhile. the card isn't really up to snuff but may help a little. dedicated source/destination drives may also help cut your render times in about half.

[Xenoun]

Actually my card does work for it, there's cheaper ones than what I have that do.


Already got the acceleration sorted and it's quite a lot faster, at least 45 mins. I'll have to let a video completely render to see what it comes out as.