On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:49:52 GMT, "Jeff" wrote:

>Hi, is there a way to speed up the rendering times in premiere 5.1? Well
>thanks for your help.

You don't give any indication of what you have, or
what you are doing, so...
1) Switching to the Canopus Raptor card from the
Adaptec-based Spark, DV200, or Adaptec versions will
nearly double render speeds (unknown advantage over
other cards...) - and the CODEC is also more accurate.
2) Increasing CPU speed (but going from a 450MHz OC'd
Celeron 300A to a PIII800 improved render speed only
by 50% [a 9-minute render now takes 6 minutes, not as
big an improvement as I'd thought it would be]). With
Premiere 5.X, using dual CPUs does not improve render
speed much...
3) Adding RAM (but anything over the minimum required
will not speed rendering - 128-megs is enough for most
purposes with Premiere on a PC).
4) Keeping the source and preview file drives separate
(not the same drive, or on the same IDE channel), but
the render speed improvement will be minimal since drive
speed under the worst conditions is much faster than
straight [CPU/CODEC-limited] render speed).
5) Changing what you are doing (color-correcting, etc.
footage before it is loaded into the computer will help,
as will avoiding CODEC changes, filtering, etc. when
editing and outputting...).
[6) Avoid the Mac FCP editing solution, since its render
speeds are so slow...;-]