when I use magic bullet in premiere cs5.5 it takes time to render

[adirzoari]

Hello,
I have laptop of dell I7 16GB intel hd graphics 4400 and I'm using in premiere cs5.5.
when I edit video and use magic bullet effect it takes like 8-12 minutes to render shoot of 5 seconds.
I really can't work with that.
I know my graphic card isn't so good but I guess the memory card and the CPU is enough for edit video..

I tried also to use in edius 7.5 and the same problem.
I saw some videos in youtube and they explain to change the sequence setting to 640X480 and then when I export to change it back to full hd but I guess the video quality is change also.
I really exhausted of the problem..
thanks.

[smrpix]

Some magic bullet effects are very processor/GPU intensive-- you don't say which ones you're using.

Given your graphic card, and the fact that two excellent NLEs give you similar results, you're probably going to have to live with it, get a better graphics card, or simplify your effects.

[SameSelf]

For 30 fps video, a five second clip is 150 frames. If it takes 10 minutes or 600 seconds to encode two passes, that is an encoding rate of 0.5 fps. That is slow to be sure.

Like smrpix said, you don't mention which effect you are using. It could be very processor intensive, that your lappy just ain't up for the task, or both. But fire up your taskmanager when you encode. Is the cpu running at 100% for all threads?

Some effects are so processor heavy that the only solution is a dual Xeon workstation with 16 threads for reasonable encode times.

[racer-x]

Stop using Magic Bullet and learn to use other filters in say, Avisynth or ffmpeg. They will still slow the encoding process, but not as much as the over rated (in my opinion) Magic Bullet effects filters......

Your call just the same.

[adirzoari]

racer-x- how can I install these plugins??
smrpix- i used in looks effect of magic bullet.

[SameSelf]

Avisynth and ffmpeg are not plug-ins for Premiere Pro, but rather third party freeware. It is considerably more complex going the PPro --> Avisynth --> ffmpeg route. You need to insert either a frameserver between PPro and Avisynth, or render out your timeline from PPro. Avisynth could be used to apply any number of filters/effects. Ffmpeg is then used to encode the final version using x264 typically or mpeg2 if you are targeting DVD.