On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:16:56 -0500, "Bexley" <bexley@videotronnothpam.ca> wrote:

>I'm about to output a 15 minute project to DV AVI and Premiere wants 22

>hours to render this. I'm not surprised since there is some heavy

>track-matte colour correcting stuff happening. Anyway, I can give it 22

>hours, but not in one sitting. So what should I do?

If you are going from DV-AVI to the same DV-AVI

format/codec, I'd be very surprised if the rendering

would take 22 hours for 15 minutes of material...

>I thought that I could "Preview" everything on the timeline in smaller

>(over-night) renders, then fire the whole lot out in one quick burst. I

>thought this would work because (I thought) the Preview files were

>effectively a "pre-render" of the final AVI. But when I tried this it

>went back to re-rendering the entire project.

It should have worked. I suspect that you have selected

"always render", or have inconsistent settings between

input and output file types, forcing a re-render...

>In other words, what is the most efficient way of sending my project out

>to a DV AVI file?

As you proposed (with no change in settings or codec, and

forced re-render not specified) - but the technique

suggested by others of making a series of smaller DV-AVI

files for later playback would also work...