On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:34:31 GMT, glenzabr@xmission.com (GMAN) wrote:

>In article <3e2a6036.2007866@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, d_ruether@hotmail.com wrote:

>>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:37:12 -0000, "wanabe"

>><wanabe@wanabe.net> wrote:

>>>I am new to video editing and I am using premiere 6.

>>>I got all my clips on the timeline and went to file/export to video,it took

>>>8 hours to render 7 minutes of video! can this be right?

>>[...]

>>No. This is often caused by incorrect settings in

>>Premiere that cause codec changes, output characteristics

>>that are different from input, "always render" chosen, etc.

>>Background programs running (like anti-virus) can also slow

>>things considerably, as can having incompatible programs

>>on the computer (this got me recently - one REALLY gummed

>>up Premiere!). Expect rendering of *everything* in the 7

>>minutes to take maybe 15-50 minutes, depending on what

>>you are rendering (though the Premiere dialogue box may

>>tell you it will take MUCH more time, as the rendering

>>starts...;-).

>> David Ruether

>Not to mention the Duron 700 is slow as molasses by todays standards.

CPU speed is relevant, but it has far less importance for

rendering speed than one would think... I've successfully

used 233MHz CPUs with video, and even with this, the render

times were FAR, FAR shorter than the original poster

complains of - and my current CPU speed is about the same

as that used by the poster, and renders are "fast"...;-)

The original poster also has sufficient RAM - the problems

lie elsewhere...