1000 year Render time

lhmaloney

lhmaloney

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I know you guys always get questions about rendering, so don't get agitated with this one. I recently finished editing this footage for someone (footage have been giving me problems from day one) Everything is a ok, it's just the rendering times (rendering the timeline after color correction etc in premiere and exporting) are taking so long rendering. I'm talking about not 1, 2, 4 hour long, we're talking 21 hours, 40 hours long for a 47 minute video. I know something must be wrong because this has never taken this long and I have done longer projects. So I have a gut feeling it must be my external hard drive. Is this common. Before you answer it let me give you some back history. My sister broke mine, I got it "replaced" with a "new one" with my warranty. And this has been the newest thing I have edited since I got it back. My question is could something be wrong with my program, computer, or is it possible that they attempted to fix the hard drive (unsuccessfully) and it is having difficulty transferring data. I am going to try a different external hard drive today.
 
I would try figuring out what kind of effects/filters/color grading you did differently from your last project before blaming a harddrive (although it could be the problem). I am not surprised by your projected render time at all.
 
everything was the plug ins that come from premiere (fast color corrector) only third party plug in I used was a grain reducer. I used both of them before and had no such issues. And I don't think the effects I used would matter once I started exporting
 
Render 30 sec to the external drive and render the same 30 to the internal drive. Time them both and compare the results. I've had some similar slow read/write issues using external drives.
 
Grain reduction can take a long time depending on the plugin - you certain that's not the culprit? especially if you're doing any sort of temporal noise reduction - it can slow way down.
 
You render times will also decrease if you render to any drive other then that your programs are on. It doesn't sound like this is what you are doing?
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Grain reduction can take a long time depending on the plugin - you certain that's not the culprit? especially if you're doing any sort of temporal noise reduction - it can slow way down.
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I think I did use a third party plug in for grain reduction, but I did it previously(however less times on the sub clip and at a lower setting) and it didn't take so long. And it still should not be taking an estimating 20 - 40 hours should it.
 
BennisHahn said:
You render times will also decrease if you render to any drive other then that your programs are on. It doesn't sound like this is what you are doing?
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Like I'll do the render on an external hard drive, then, I tried exporting to my internal hard drive, so your saying that I should have the source files on the internal hard drive, or just have my scratch disks set to an internal hard drive.
 
its odd you mentioned slow hard drives !!?
today i just transfered pics to my hard drive external and vista explained that
the read write speed was a meek 2.5 megs a sec?? it could be related that your dma is super slow but i never figured how to improve that ? something to do with your usb or other chipset on the motherboards driver settings i think?
but there are many services that take up that process time like maybe your
virus checking everything? can u view your processes that are happening?
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If you only have one internal and one external drive, keep your programs on the internal and all your media on your external. Render to your external.
 
BennisHahn said:
If you only have one internal and one external drive, keep your programs on the internal and all your media on your external. Render to your external.
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Yeah that's what I did intially to it went slow, it makes sense about the grain reduction though. I should have also mentioned I was working on my laptop, (but I've been working on it previously any way) until I get my super computer. I think it's possibly a combination of both the external hard drive and the grain reduction
 
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