slow export time for mpeg encoder-help!

[johnschuler]

Hey everyone, I am using Premiere 6.5 and I am trying to export a fairly long piece of video (2hr) to mpeg using the mpeg encoder (set at dvd). However, its coding it VERY slowly. Slower than normal in fact. Now, maybe I'm expecting too much here, but is 2 DAYS an appropriate export time for 2 hours of video???? I'm not sure if this is a processor problem or what and I would really appreciate any help I can get.

 

[andershanssen]

2 days is very long. I am using a intel pentium 4 3.2 ghz processor and 1 gb ram, and I think my computer would encode 2 hours of video, in about 4-5 hours.

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Anders (Norway)

 

[LRSmith]

I had similar results (2 days/2 hours) on a 900 MHz machine with 1 GB of RAM. This was true after defragging the hard-drives, even having Premiere on one physical hard-drive and the files on another, same IDE channel. The long duration occurred when I rendered the output as some type of compressed video (e.g., MPEG, DVAVI). The solution I found was to output to uncompressed AVI, then it only took 4-5 hours. Afterward, I used a third party encoder (TMPGEnc) to get the MPEG.

The potential downside is that you will need >= 200 GB harddrive to contain the uncompressed AVI output from Premiere.

 

[johnschuler]

Actually I am using 1GB ram and a 200GB hard drive...which, again, doesnt make sense. Anyway, thanks for the tips guys. I will try doing it uncompressed.