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Benjamin Richardson · October 28th, 2007, 09:06 PM

I'm working in a 1080 24p Aspect HD time line within CS3 (with latest update) with windows XP pro sp2. The project is about 5 minutes in length with about 300 clips and transitions, all of which have at least 3 layers of color correcting effects. I have rendered the time line. Which was a feat in itself, and am now attempting to export the entire sequence to a cineform avi. I am only getting 50% on my CPU usage, which is also what i got when i was rendering the timeline. When I originally installed PPCS3 I whenever I rendered whether it be on the timeline or within adobe media encoder it was utilizing full system resources, now its taking twice the time, appr. 5 hours and rising. please advise.

Thank You.

P.S. I am now attempting to export 30 seconds and it is estimating 2 hours. Should I attempt to Create a DVD Directly from the timeline instead? I do not trust adobe's downconverting abilities. Deadline for project is Tuesday morning.

Mike McCarthy · October 29th, 2007, 03:26 AM

Certain individual clip effects may not be optimized for Multithreaded rendering, so if you have more than one CPU visible to the OS, that will result in the 50% usage cap. The same thing happens in AE with a very few select effects.

October 28th, 2007, 09:06 PM	#1
Benjamin Richardson Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 143	Utilizing System Resources I'm working in a 1080 24p Aspect HD time line within CS3 (with latest update) with windows XP pro sp2. The project is about 5 minutes in length with about 300 clips and transitions, all of which have at least 3 layers of color correcting effects. I have rendered the time line. Which was a feat in itself, and am now attempting to export the entire sequence to a cineform avi. I am only getting 50% on my CPU usage, which is also what i got when i was rendering the timeline. When I originally installed PPCS3 I whenever I rendered whether it be on the timeline or within adobe media encoder it was utilizing full system resources, now its taking twice the time, appr. 5 hours and rising. please advise. Thank You. P.S. I am now attempting to export 30 seconds and it is estimating 2 hours. Should I attempt to Create a DVD Directly from the timeline instead? I do not trust adobe's downconverting abilities. Deadline for project is Tuesday morning. Last edited by Benjamin Richardson; October 28th, 2007 at 09:24 PM. Reason: added information

October 29th, 2007, 03:26 AM	#2
Mike McCarthy Major Player Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 517	Certain individual clip effects may not be optimized for Multithreaded rendering, so if you have more than one CPU visible to the OS, that will result in the 50% usage cap. The same thing happens in AE with a very few select effects. __________________ For more information on these topics, check out my tech website at www.hd4pc.com