slowness of program

cspub wrote on 1/20/2004, 6:30 AM

i just bought the program. i imported a short 3 sec avi file. no sound or transitions. it seemed to take a long time to render and to preview in external player.

i'm concerned that when i'm doing a 5 min. video with sounds and transitions that it will take forever. is this usual? what is an average time for ? size file?

i'm use to using a flash base program to create multi media so i'm trying to weigh which is quicker when i want to go to dvd as my final product.

Comments

Former user wrote on 1/20/2004, 6:37 AM

What format are you rendering to? What are the specs on the origianal AVI file (codec, bitrate etc). What is your processor speed?

These are all relevent to the speed of rendering.

Dave T2

GerryLeacock wrote on 1/20/2004, 6:39 AM

I just checked out my machine - imported a 3 sec clip and it took 21 seconds to render to avi. I usually go by the rule that it takes 5X or 6X as long to render as the length of the original clip. Perhaps you have a number of programs running the in background that are stealing resources?

ADinelt wrote on 1/20/2004, 9:13 AM

Also, adding transistions, effects, overlay titles, multiple video and audio tracks will lengthen the time it takes to render as there is more data to process, but this will be the case with any product.

I noticed a definite improvement by adding 256 meg RAM to my PC. I was previously using 128 and bumped it up to 384. This was due mainly to buffer underruns with my DVD burner and got a benefit of better performance all around.

Al