Adobe Premier 1.5 Question Part 4 ! The Saga Continues !
 

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 :(

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

I am...
 

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 :helpme

Bump...
 

any one have any suggestions... :helpme

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

Hmmm....
 

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 :)

Bumperty...
 

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

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.

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.

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?

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.