On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:07:39 GMT, "Anthony" wrote:

>Hello David,

>> 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...

>I could very well be doing something wrong, I wish I knew what that was. I
>should mention that the what I am using as a background image, is another
>video clip. The idea is to have the show shot in studeo, but have a
>babaling brook or water fall in the back sceen so as to give th impression
>of an on-location shoot.
>
>If you are just using a still image as the background, it seems that it
>would require a lot less processing.

One of the ones I tried was motion-video over motion-video,
chroma-key, with 45-seconds/10-second with single 800MHz
P-III, 256-megs, UDMA drives (no RAID), P-5.1a, Raptor
hardware/software...

>Does that make sence? If I am wrong about that last situation, where do you
>think I may be doing something wrong?

Unknown, unless you are changing codecs in the process.
This can add a LOT of time to the process...

>PS My hardware and software setup is as follows:
>
>Canopus DV Raptor Capture Board
>Canopus Rexfx Effects Engine
>
>600Mhz PIII
>256 Mb RAM
>30 Gb HDD for Storage
>32 Gb Medea PCI Video Raid System
>
>Raptor Video DV Capture Software
>Adobe Premier 5 Editing Software
>Cleaner 5 Encoding and Authoring Software
>
>Thanks Much Dave!
>Anthony

Try setting everything to standard settings, no
recompressions of picture or sound, no codec
changes, use 1-frame audio interleave, do
everything in Premiere, and try a fresh building
of preview files (wipe out the originals), and
see if this improves the time needed...
Good luck!