Adobe Premier 1.5 Question Part 4 ! The Saga Continues !

[PureTotty]

OK I am losing my mind now... I am trying to render a 2.30 min video... I am saving it as a WMP file... but when I try and render it, it is rendering over 1 million frames ??? And telling me it will take 26 hours... for a 2 and a half minute video ???

So yet again I am sure I am doing soemthign wrong... I want the screen size quite big, think on the setting I am using its liek 640 something...

Anyways the 26 min video I did yesterday took 3 and a bit hours to render, and then made a second pass even though I had set it at one pass... so another 3 hours waiting... so I thought 6 hours wait for one 26 min video was extreme...

And not this 26 hours for a 2 and a half minute video... tell me what I am doing wrong guys

[SGS]

Why are you saving it and not "exporting" it?

[PureTotty]

I am exporting it... my bad

file....export....adobe media encoder.... WM9 PAL download 1024

General Summary:
Output: Compressed
Average Kbps: Variable

Video Summary:
Codec: Windows Media Video 9
Encoding Passes: Two
Bitrate Mode: Variable Unconstrained
Allow interlaced processing: Off

Audio Summary:
Codec: Windows Media Audio 9.1
Encoding Passes: Two
Bitrate Mode: Variable Unconstrained

Metadata Summary:

Audiences Summary:
High bandwidth
Decoder Complexity: Auto
Frame Rate [fps]: 25
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Frame Width [pixels]: 640
Frame Height [pixels]: 480
Keyframe Interval [seconds]: 5
Buffer Size [seconds]: Default
Average Video Bitrate: 928.00 (low quality)
Audio Format: 96 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo VBR


And then I click ok... but as I said the video is only 2 and a half minutes long, yet is showing as over 1 million frames and 26 hours of download

[PureTotty]

any one have any suggestions...

[Azlord]

ok, two things... First one is, take off encoding passes 2 on both audio and video.

Then, what are your computer specs? Maybe your system is not up to par?

[billywatson]

Originally Posted by Azlord

ok, two things... First one is, take off encoding passes 2 on both audio and video.

Then, what are your computer specs? Maybe your system is not up to par?

Yea, it's a hardware issue IMO

[PureTotty]

Not sure what spec... but yes sure you are right What spec is important for this kind of work, as in what should I upgrade, taking it that I cant upgrade the whole computer currently

[PureTotty]

Bump for advice on what spec is important on a computer for video rendering work ? What do I need to upgrade ?

[Tat2Jr]

1GB of ram. an extra harddrive for your scratch discs (actually maybe that's photoshop), and the fastest CPU you can get. Hyperthreading really speeds things up. I'm not sure which I would upgrade if I was doing it in parts... probably the chip, but that would mean new motherboard ect.

[Tat2Jr]

Really though, Pro 1.5 only lasted about a week on my computer before I put 6.5 back on. It's what I know, and I can do it in my sleep. I guess I'll dig Pro 1.5 out again when/if I go HDTV.

[Jim_Gunn]

Premiere Pro 1.5 is very similar, yet far superior to version 6.5, which is what I first used when I started editing a couple of years ago. (As long as your system can handle it) In any case, for the orginal poster, sounds like you have an underpowered pc. You are using a different hard drive to store and write the video files to than the hdd that contains your operating system, right?

[Jim_Gunn]

Originally Posted by PureTotty

I am exporting it... my bad
And then I click ok... but as I said the video is only 2 and a half minutes long, yet is showing as over 1 million frames and 26 hours of download

And the million frames thing makes no sense at all to me.

[MaLil]

Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

And the million frames thing makes no sense at all to me.

One fluke I've noticed is if the section is highlighted when I go to render it, often times the entire file will be rendered. try clicking off of the clip itself before rendering.