On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:14:14 GMT, "Anthony" wrote:

>> Are you outputting DV-AVI back to tape in the
>> Mini-DV/D-8/DVCam camera via FireWire?

>No, right now I am just Exporting from Premier to an AVI file on the HDD
>(Medea Video Raid).

>> Rendering of a 4-minute video should take
>> (very roughly) about 25 minutes with your gear.
>> Switching codecs WILL slow things down a lot!

>I have used all of these codecs: VDOnet VDOWave, Cinepak by Radius, Intel
>Indeo Video R3.2, Microsoft Video1, Microsoft RLE, Indeo Video 5.06, Intel
>Indeo 4.4,
>Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1, Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2, Microsoft
>MPEG-4 Video Codec V3, DVSoft, Canopus Motion JPEG decoder/encoder, and
>Canopus DV Codec.

If you capture using the Raptor card, then output
using the Canopus Raptor DV codec.

>Using a Chroma Key effect requires rendering every frame, so that's a lot of
>work for my equipment. I feel that even if I hade a dule P III and a Gb of
>RAM, using Premier with the DV Raptor would still take a long time.

Unless something is set wrong, doing what it appears
you are doing should take nothing like the long times
you are waiting. With an 800MHz CPU it takes about
37 seconds to render 10 seconds of picture video
on an SI track at 50% transparency over another
picture video track (or 14.8 minutes for 4 minutes
of rendered video), 45 seconds to render the same
clips with chroma key, and 31 seconds to render a
10 second cross dissolve between the same two tracks
(about 54, 67, and 45 seconds on a 450MHz computer).
Canopus Raptor, 256megs RAM, 800MHZ P-111 or
450MHz clocked Celeron 300a, Abit MB, Maxtor and
IBM UDMA drives (no RAID), Premiere 5.1a.
I would look through the settings...