Andrew Prince
August 2nd, 2011, 02:56 AM
Hi all,
I was doing some rendering last night on my edit box and I noticed something that got me thinking maybe my system isn't configured correctly.
Basically, I had a 25 minute HDV 1080i timeline in Premiere Pro CS5. I dropped Magic Bullet Looks 2.0 on it and added a custom preset. I then accepted the look and hit enter to render the now red timeline. The render box appeared on screen and rapidly went up. It took maybe five seconds to do over 300 frames and then it dropped in speed to around 2 frames a second.
Is this normal? It seems to me that Premiere Pro is hitting a limit somewhere. It's like maybe loading the first batch of work into video memory and then it runs out of space and slows to a crawl. Could it be hard drive cache?
My system is:
Core i7 920 CPU
Asus P2B mainboard
12 Gb DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX 470 graphics card
500 Gb SATA2 drive for OS and S/W
1 Tb (2 x 500 Gb SATA2) RAID Array for media
Anyone seen this before or have any ideas what may be causing it? Could it be normal operation for MBLs 2.0? I seem to remember it also did this with the older version of MBLs.
Does anyone have any benchmark times they can share so that I can work out whether my system is rendering optimally?
Thanks. :-)
Kind regards,
Andrew
Carillon Video - Professional Wedding Videographer & Wedding Video Production Services in Bolton, Manchester & all over the UK (http://www.carillonvideo.co.uk)
I was doing some rendering last night on my edit box and I noticed something that got me thinking maybe my system isn't configured correctly.
Basically, I had a 25 minute HDV 1080i timeline in Premiere Pro CS5. I dropped Magic Bullet Looks 2.0 on it and added a custom preset. I then accepted the look and hit enter to render the now red timeline. The render box appeared on screen and rapidly went up. It took maybe five seconds to do over 300 frames and then it dropped in speed to around 2 frames a second.
Is this normal? It seems to me that Premiere Pro is hitting a limit somewhere. It's like maybe loading the first batch of work into video memory and then it runs out of space and slows to a crawl. Could it be hard drive cache?
My system is:
Core i7 920 CPU
Asus P2B mainboard
12 Gb DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX 470 graphics card
500 Gb SATA2 drive for OS and S/W
1 Tb (2 x 500 Gb SATA2) RAID Array for media
Anyone seen this before or have any ideas what may be causing it? Could it be normal operation for MBLs 2.0? I seem to remember it also did this with the older version of MBLs.
Does anyone have any benchmark times they can share so that I can work out whether my system is rendering optimally?
Thanks. :-)
Kind regards,
Andrew
Carillon Video - Professional Wedding Videographer & Wedding Video Production Services in Bolton, Manchester & all over the UK (http://www.carillonvideo.co.uk)