Export faster

Trying to export an hour long movie from FCP to Compressor. It's taking me forever. I would like to do it faster without sacrificing too much quality. Original footage was shot on a DVX100B in 24P mode.
Another user, Jerry, had mentioned changing my CBR to 6-7MBPS. I am using FCP 5.1.4 and have no idea where that is.
The settings I am using are below. Right now I am trying to compress again. I started a half hour ago. It is 17% done with 2.5 hours to go which may increase.
Trying to fit this on a 4.7 gig disc
Help, I have a deadline.
Thank you.
File Extension: mov
Estimated file size: 708.18 MB
Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 640
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: default
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: Off
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 75
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Key frame interval: 30
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25
Average data rate: 1.536 (Mbps)

David is not recommending H264. If you compress to H264 and import that into iDVD it will be compressed again to MPEG 2. This is bad, as you are introducing an un-needed compression cycle.
What you need to do is import your FCP native QuickTime movie into iDVD (if you want a playable disc). iDVD does the MPEG 2 encoding internally. You don't have to worry about it.
If you just want a data disc that folks can copy to a computer's hard drive, you can use the Finder -right click the video file and choose Burn from the pop up menu. Then follow the instructions on screen.

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Hi,
How can I export and render fast in Adobe After Effects, I bought a new PC but it's not quick enough in my opinion.
I want to export a 1920*1080 60FPS project, 10 seconds long. It takes a very long time.
I have already set my GPU as processor but if I start the render and look at my GPU usage, After Effects won't use it.
Screenshots of my project and settings:
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Momory - https://snapr.pw/i/e92cb228a9.png
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Computer system: popoqwerty - Profiel - Tweakers
CPU - Intel Core i7- 8520K six-core
GPU - Asus GTX 780 OC 6GB STRIX
MOBO - Asus X99-A
RAM - 16GB Crucial
SSD - Samsung SSD PRO 850
HDD - WD Black 2TB

> How can I export and render fast in Adobe After Effects,
See this page for resources about making After Effects work faster: http://adobe.ly/eV2zE7
> I have already set my GPU as processor but if I start the render and look at my GPU usage, After Effects won't use it.
After Effects uses the GPU for almost nothing. See this page for details of GPU features in After Effects:
GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects
> A ''verry long time'' is 10 minutes for a 10 second video.
10 minutes is not a long time for a 10-second movie with visual effects, compositing, 3D, or many other kinds of computationally intensive processing. Often, people leave 30-second movies overnight or over the weekend to render. This is true for all aoftware that does this kind of work, not just After Effects.

Make QT export faster? Not using resources.

I am exporting some quicktime movies to DV clips. These clips are 640x480 and anwywhere from 15 to 45 minutes long (however, the following problem happens on QT clips of all resolutions and lengths).
The problem is that the process is very slow, and QT Pro doesn't seem to be using my system's resources very much. I have a brand new Mac Pro (3ghz quad core) with 5 GB of RAM – so obviously I was hoping the new system would speed up this process. But it is not noticeably faster than my old iMac G5.
The "problem" is that I don't think QT is properly using the "horsepower" of this system. The CPU usage meters show all 4 cores being used at only about 25%-30%. However, Activity Monitor shows a process called QTPlayerHelper running at about 125% CPU! (which doesn't seem possible).
As for RAM, Activity Monitor shows all 4.95 of 5GB "used," but Quicktime is only using 100 MB and QTPlayerHelper is only showing 40MB use. But, in another apparent contradiction, it says VM size is over 19GB... if QT, which is the only thing I am doing now, is only using 150 MB of memory, why is VM usage so high?
Other than just some general insight into what is going on here, my real question is: "Is there any way to make QT use all system resources to speed up these exports (so my 4 cores of Xeon goodness would be used to their fullest potential)?"

In Activity Monitor, under the System Memory tab, you will see that RAM usage is broken down into four categories; Wired, Active, Inactive, and Free (shown visually on the pie chart).
Wired: Memory used to run the system (kernal). You can't free up Wired memory since you can't quit the system. Sometimes, a restart will free up some resources here but as you use more of the system, it will claim more memory.
Active: Launching applications causes them to claim various amounts of memory to run. Quiting applications will free up some of the Active memory.
Inactive: Applications may reserve additional amounts of memory that it uses to load a document or cache into so it runs faster that going to the disk each time. Inactive memory is variable, other applications that want to use it can grab it at will. It's basicly like holding a seat in the theatre for a friend, if all the other seats are taken and your friend hasn't shown, you have to give up the seat to anyone that wants it.
Free: Memory that hasn't been claimed or reserved.
The "Used" total includes Inactive memory, but the number in the Real Memory column for each item does not, only Wired and Active.
You may also notice this scenario one day:
10% Wired
40% Active (let's say two applications are open)
40% Inactive
10% Free
---Then you quit one of the applications and see:
10% Wired
20% Active
60% Inactive
10% Free
You didn't gain any Free memory, but that's because as soon as it was available the remaining application reserved it. If the system needs it or you open a new app, it will give it up to it. It's best to think of Inactive memory as Free for your purposes.
As for the QuickTime export...
At some point, there is a limit to how fast something can be done. I'm sure you know that 20%(x4) on a Xeon is at least >= 100% on a G5. Only applications specificaly optimized for quad-core processors can make full use of all it's power. Unfortuanatly, not every program toady has been (or needs to be), which was true when dual-core computers first came out. In this case, the power of your machine lies it the fact that you can be doing lots of other things at the same time as the QuickTime export without it slowing down. Can't do that on the G5. Right now, the biggest benefit goes to pro video editing and effects applications and specialized math and scientific programs. For the time being, know that nothing can do it faster than you can and you don't have to take lunch while it exports, you can keep working. 10 years ago, if I wanted to export a 30 minute video I edited in Adobe Premiere, I had to leave it over night, and it wasn't even DV quality or have today's fancy effects. Those were the days...

Quicktime export (fast) vs Compressor export (slow)

I have an 8 minute ProRes file at 1920 x 1080. It takes about 20 minutes on my machine If I export this as a full res 1080p H264 file (10 Mbps) using Quicktime 10.1. Why does it take 2 hours, with the same setting using Compressor 3.5.3?

Name: H264 1920 x 1080 @ 10Mbps
Description: H.264 video with stereo AAC audio. Settings based off the source resolution and frame-rate.
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 4.61 GB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
          AAC, Stereo (L R), 48,000 kHz
Video Encoder
          Format: QT
          Width: 1920
          Height: 1080
          Pixel aspect ratio: Square
          Crop: None
          Padding: None
          Frame rate: (100% of source)
          Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
          Codec Type: H.264
          Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
          Pixel depth: 24
          Spatial quality: 75
          Min. Spatial quality: 25
          Temporal quality: 50
          Min. temporal quality: 25
          Average data rate: 10.24 (Mbps)

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Is it the default settings for Premier?

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Adding a RAID card to help speed up export (and other drive question) in Premiere Pro CC

First of all, I have read Tweakers Page exporting section because that is where my primary concern is. First my questions, then background and my current and proposed configurations:
Question 1: Will adding a hardware RAID controller, such as an LSI MegaRAID remove enough burden from the CPU managing parity on my software RAID 5 that the CPU will jump for joy and export faster?
Question 2: If true to above, then compare thoughts on adding more smaller SSDs for either a one volume RAID 0 or smaller two volume RAID 0 to complement existing HDD RAID 5. That is, I'm thinking of buying four Samsung 850 Pro 128 GB SSDs to put in a four disk volume to handle everything (media/projects, media cache, previews, exports), or split it up into two volumes of two disks each and split the duties, or keep the four disk volume idea and put the previews & exports on my HDD RAID 5 array.
The 850's are rated at SEQ read/write: 550/470 MB/s thus I could get around 2000/1500 MB/s read write in a four disk RAID 0 or 1/2 that if I split into two volumes to minimize volumes from reading/writing at the same time, if that really matters with these SSDs?
The Tweaker's page made a few comments. One is splitting duties among different disks, rather than a large efficient RAID may actually slow things down. Since the SSDs are much faster than a single HDD, I'm thinking that is no longer accurate, thus I'm leaning toward the Four disk configuration putting OS & Programs on C drive, Media & Projects on D (HDD RAID 5), Pagefile & Media Cache on SSD (2-disk RAID 0) and Previews &Exports on 2nd SSD RAID 0 (or combine the two RAID 0's and their duties).
Just trying to get a perspective here, since I haven't purchased anything yet. Any experience/stories, I would appreciate.
My current drive configuration:
My D drive is software RAID 5 consisting of four 1 TB Western Digital RE4 (RED) 7200 RPM HDDs with a CrystalDiskMark SEQ Read/Write of 339/252 MB/s.
The C drive is SSD 500 GB (Samsung 840 (not Pro) and does 531/330 MB/s. My OS, Program Files and Page File are on C, and data/media files/project, etc all are on the RAID drive.
Problem:
Current setup allows for smooth editing, only the exporting seems slow, often taking between two and two and a half times the video length to export. Thus a 10 minute video takes 20-30 minutes to export. 15 minute video can take 30-40 minutes to export. The first 10% of the two-pass export takes under a minute (seems fast), but it gets slower where the final 10 or 20% can hang for many minutes like my system is running out of steam. So where is the waste?
I have enabled hardware acceleration (did the GPU hack since my GPU isn't listed) and it may spike at 25% usage a few times and eat up 600 MB of VRAM (I have 2 GB of VRAM), otherwise it is idle the whole export. The CPU may spike at 50% but it doesn't seem overly busy either.
Our timeline is simple with two video streams and two audio streams (a little music and mostly voice) with simple transitions (jump cuts or cross dissolves). We sometimes fast color correct, so that might use the GPU? Also, since we film in 1080 60P and export 1080 29.97 frames/sec, I think that is scaling and uses the GPU. I know without the GPU, it does take a lot longer. I have ruled out buying a faster GPU since it doesn't appear to be breaking a sweat. I just need to know if my system is bottlenecked at the hard drive level because I'm using software RAID and my disks are slow and will hardware RAID significantly reduce the CPU load so it can export faster.
Our files are not huge in nature. Most our clips are several MBs each. Total project files are between 5 GBs and 10 GBs for each video with Windows Media File export being 500 MB to 1.2 GB on average. We shoot using Panasonic camcorders so the original files are AVCHD, I believe (.MTS files?).
Considerations:
1. I'm thinking of buying (and future proofing) an LSI Logic MegaRAID 9361-8i that is 12Gb/s SAS and SATA (because some current SSDs can exceed the 6Gb/s standard).
2. I'm not replacing my current RAID 5 HDDs because not in my budget to upgrade to 6 or more large SSDs. These drives are more important to me for temporary storage because I remove the files once backed up. I don't mind a few inexpensive smaller SSDs if they can make a significant difference for editing and exporting.
I can only guess my HDD RAID is slow but the CPU is burdened with parity. I would imagine running RAID 10 would not help much.
My setup:
my setup:
CPU - i7-3930K CPU @4.5 GHz
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 @2000
Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB (performed the compatibility list hack to enable hardware acceleration).
C drive - 500 GB Samsung 840 SSD (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and programs).
D drive - four 1 TB WD RE4 Enterprise HDDs 7200 RPMs in software RAID 5
Case - Cooler Master HAF X
CPU Fan - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm fan
Power Supply - Corsair Pro Series AX 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold
Optical Drive - Pioneer BDR - 208DBK
thanks in advance,
Eric

........software RAID 5 off the motherboard ??????......NOT a good idea, from what I have read here on this forum from experts like Harm Millard and others. They have mentioned a LARGE overhead on the CPU doing this....causing sub-par performance. RAID 0 off the motherboard will NOT do this, however.....RAID 0 would provide optimum speed, but, with the risk of total data loss if ANY drive fails. You may wish to reconfigure your RAID to be RAID 0...BUT...you would need to DILIGENTLY back up its entire volume onto perhaps a quality 4TB drive very frequently.
A lot depends on the nature of your current and FUTURE codecs you plan to edit. You may not want to sink a lot of money into an older setup that may have trouble with more demanding future codecs. For now, in the 1080p realm, your rig should be OK....the read/write performance on your CURRENT RAID 5 setup is not great, and a definite drag on the performance. The rest of your components appear to be fine.....the Samsung SSD, though not ideal, is OK.....it's write speed is WAY lower than the Pro model,but, the drive is used mainly for reading operations. Since you have Windows 7 Pro, and NOT Windows 8.......you CAN put the entire windows page file onto the RAID 0 you might create.....this will take that frequent read/write load OFF the SSD. Read the "tweakers Page" to see how to best TUNE your machine. To use your current setup most efficiently, without investing much money, you would :a. create the RAID 0 off the motherboard, ( putting all media and project files on it ) b. install a quality 7200rpm 4TB HDD to serve as a BACKUP of the RAID array. Then, install a Crucial M550 256GB or larger SSD, ( close in performance to Samsung 850 Pro...much cheaper), to put all previews, cache , and media cache files on....AND to use as " global performance cache" for After Effects...if you use that program. Exporting can be done to ANOTHER Crucial M550 for best speed...or, just to the either the FIRST Crucial or, the 4TB drive. Your current GPU will accelerate exports on any video containing scaling and any GPU accelerated effects. Your CPU is STILL important in SERVING the data to and from the GPU AND for decoding and encoding non-GPU handled video....your high CPU clock speed helps performance there ! You may want to check out possibly overclocking your video card, using MSI Afterburner.or, similar free program. Increasing the "memory clock speed" can RAISE performance and cut export times on GPU effects loaded timelines,or, scaling operations. On my laptop, I export 25% faster doing this. With my NEW i7 4700 HQ laptop, I export in the range of your CURRENT machine....about 2 to 3 times the length of the original video. PROPERLY SET UP...your desktop machine should BLOW THIS AWAY !!
Visit the PPBM7 website and test your current setup to possibly identify current bottlenecks,or, performance issues. THEN, RE-TEST it again, after making improvements to your machine to see how it does. Be aware that new codecs are coming (H.265 and HEVC,etc.) which may demand more computer horsepower to edit, as they are even MORE compressed and engineered for "streaming" high quality at a lower bandwidth on the internet. The new Haswell E...with its quad-channel memory, 8 core option, large number of PCI gen. 3 lanes, goes farther in being prepared for 4K and more. Testing by Eric Bowen has shown the newer PPro versions provide MUCH better processing of 4K than older versions.

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When attempting to export HD video from Final Cut Express using "uncompressed" setting, I notice that the output quality seems to be limited to "medium." If no compression is used, wouldn't that imply that the video quality should equal original footage?

All FCE Timelines are using the AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) for HD stuff if you selected the correct Easy Setup before you started your Project.
If you export as a Quicktime Movie then you are getting exactly the same export quality as the Timeline.
The Quicktime Movie can be either Self-Contained or a Reference file. Reference Files are great because they use/reference you exisating captured files on your Scratch Disc, use less space and export fast.
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I made a movie that is roughly around 12 gigs of memory. I exported the movie to CD Quality first so that it can be uploaded to youtube. The problem I noticed with the CD Quality, is that some of the frames jump a bit. However the movie plays fine...
When I try to export the project to Full Qaulity, the movie seems to export faster than it does CD Quality, roughly taking about 45 seconds fully to complete itself...
When I open the full quality movie, the first movie clip from the project plays, but then freezes at the beginning of the second one...
Is it freezing because the project is too big? Or is it something else???
In any case, how I can fix this so I can have a working full quality movie???
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Message was edited by: stringcheese

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I am working in Final Cut Pro 4.5 on a DP500 Mac w/MacOS 10.3.9 Panther. I am trying to minimize the time required to get a file out of FCP to a DVD. Since Quicktime is used to get the file out of FCP before anything else is done I'm posting here instaed of the FCP forum. I have also recently acquired the LaCie Fastcoder to help out with this. Fastcoder says it wants an "NTSC DV Stream" in order to convert a file to MPEG2 in real time. I can then burn the results using Toast pretty easily. The Fastcoder takes a little longer to convert the Final Cut exported DV Stream to an elementary MPEG2 Stream that is usable in DVD Studio Pro, but the time reduction is still better than the interminable time it takes for Compressor to do the same thing.
Here's the Quicktime question. When I export the file from FCP using Quicktime conversion and selecting "DV Stream" and "NTSC 48k" it takes 3x realtime to do this. Is there a faster way to get Quicktime to create an NTSC 48K DV Stream..... ?
TIA
Pete D.
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9X% of the time is for converting the raw to rgb, and only 0X% for encoding the rgb for final output format. So, the answer to your question is:
there is no fastest format for exporting.
If you want quick lossless exports, the only solution I know of is to adopt a 2-stage pipeline:
* Apply baseline adjustments to raw (e.g. white-balance, lens corrections, noise reduction, "capture" sharpening), and export 16-bit tiff back to catalog (hopefully, this is only done once, or at least very infrequently).
* Apply further adjustments to tiff.
The tiff will export faster than the raw, since it has the benefit of starting with already rendered RGB data.
Far from ideal, I know, and personally - I wouldn't bother. But it's the best I got for ya...
If you want quick lossy exports, then use PreviewExporter.
Rob

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Hi, does anybody know if there is a way to export faster other than changing cpu/overclock/memory? Maybe a especial video card or GPU?
I notice that when I export Flash just use 25% of processor, any way to improve this?
I have a fast processor (phenom 3.4) and enough memory (4GB), but still need more speed...
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Hi!
I have had my iMac for around a year: Mid 2011 iMac 21", 12GB RAM. I switched from FCPX because Adobe just had more for me. FCPX exported fast and fine. But when I move to Adobe suddenly exporting becomes an issue. I have tried both CS6 and CC both do the same thing.
I will be exporting something normaly full 1080p DSLR footage and it will get half way into the export and shut down the mac. The mac will just restart. It does it every single time. The issue has now also started when just trying to render a prodject not even export. I want to use Adobe but I just can't. It does the same exporting from Premiere and AME. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP.
I have taken my iMac into Apple and they have run stress tests for 24 hours and it was fine... Please help!

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I have been editing for 4-5 years now and have never had a problem with size of a project to put into DVD Studio Pro to burn. However, I just finished a 2 hour project in which exported as a FCP movie it is 23.97 gb in size. When i put this into DVD Studio Pro it makes it 4.8gb in size which just makes it too big for it to burn. I have tried changing the compression to no avail and just now decided to clean up the timeline so everything is on one track with nothing overlapping. (The problem was it was a 2 camera shoot so the first camera i had on the bottom track constant with the second camera on the top track when i needed it but still with the first camera underneath.) Do you think this could be the solution to my problem? If you guys could help me out it would be most appreciated!

some things don't make sense here. please clarify.
Standard DV is roughly 5 minutes per gig, so that means that you have just about 2 hours of video, ok, got that. Now it's the two track thing that gets me.
Are you saying you have 4 hours of footage, the same thing from two cameras, and you're trying to set up a multi-angle DVD?
If it's just that you used two video tracks to edit, then NO, it is not your problem. It's still only 2 hours, the video will be mixed down to one track upon export from FCP to quicktime.
My suggestion is, instead of bringing a quicktime file directly into DVDSP, use compressor. I believe they have a preset in compressor 2 for a standard 120 minute DVD. IF you're project is truly less than 120 minutes, than that should be fine. If not, then you may have to manually make your own setting and lower the bitrate.
So the workflow is:
-open sequence in fcp
-file>export>quicktime movie... (you can uncheck "make movie self-contained" if you want it to export faster and you plan on keeping your original capture footage around)
-export your movie to a directory of your choice with a name of your choice.
-open compressor (in applications)
-drag the quicktime file you created into compressors main window, this will set it up. Now specify the export setting (120 minute HQ all files either 16x9 or 4x3 dep. on project) and specify a location for the files to be created. I strongly suggest that you use the HQ (High quality) settings in compressor. It's much slower to process, but much better quality.
-with a 2 hour movie it should take a really REALLY long time to compress, so I'de say do it over night.
-when compressor is done, you should have 2 or three files. a .m2v file a .aif file, and a .ac3 file. The .aif is your PCM audio, much better quality than the .ac3, which is dolby 2 channel. However, the .ac3 is a much smaller file with a lower bit rate, so if the .aif makes the DVD file size too big, you can switch it out for the .ac3
-Finally, open up your DVDSP project, drag the .m2v, .aif, and .ac3 into DVDSP and use the .m2v for the video track and either the .aif or .ac3 as the audio (as mentioned above)
-the good news is, your DVD media is already rendered, so when you go to build your DVD it will go much, much faster!
By the way, I recommend you go to file>advanced>build do not do a burn and build.
I find it best to build the VIDEO_TS folder on a hard drive and then use a program like toast to create a DVD (using toasts from VIDEO_TS option). This method also allows you to go back into DVDSP, make tweaks, and reuse your VIDEO_TS folder, not having to rebuild the whole thing each time.
Remember, 120 minutes on a single layer DVD is going to render fairly low quality no matter what.
If you have a newer mac and a dual layer drive, you may want to cough up a few bucks and get a dual layer DVD-R, then you have over 8 gigs of space to work with, perfect for HQ 2 hour footage.

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I am currently using TIFF 8-bit LZW compression, but its still REALLY slow. About 10 seconds per photo.
I forgot to set the RAW file size in my camera to S-RAW to make it just a bit bigget than the 1080P footage I will later output them to.
I was wondering if there was a file format that was lossless but is quickest to export to from lightroom.?
Thanks!

9X% of the time is for converting the raw to rgb, and only 0X% for encoding the rgb for final output format. So, the answer to your question is:
there is no fastest format for exporting.
If you want quick lossless exports, the only solution I know of is to adopt a 2-stage pipeline:
* Apply baseline adjustments to raw (e.g. white-balance, lens corrections, noise reduction, "capture" sharpening), and export 16-bit tiff back to catalog (hopefully, this is only done once, or at least very infrequently).
* Apply further adjustments to tiff.
The tiff will export faster than the raw, since it has the benefit of starting with already rendered RGB data.
Far from ideal, I know, and personally - I wouldn't bother. But it's the best I got for ya...
If you want quick lossy exports, then use PreviewExporter.
Rob

Exporting ALL playlists at once

Can i do this, or do i have to just export one playlist at a time? thanks...I dont want to export the library however. just the playlists..

Ooops... my bad, did not notice this was the Final Cut Express forum. Anyway, if you upgrade to Final Cut Studio, you could do a batch export in two different ways.
Make 20 different sequences, and put each clip of each speaker in its own seqence. That way, you can do a Batch Export from the File menu in Final Cut Pro.
You could also set up Compressor to use a default preset and destination (can be set in the Compressor Preferences), and then send all those sequences to Compressor and do a batch encoding there. This way you do not freeze up Final Cut, and can continue to do some light weight editing.
Still, you can make 20 sequences in Final Cut Express, and export all those as QuickTime reference files (reference files export faster and requires less space). Then you could use Automator in OS X to do a batch QuickTime export to the format desired (i.e. for iPod).
Good luck!

CS6, long exports even when pre-rendered

Admittedly I'm a bit new to Premiere. And I'm hoping there is some novice aspects to how the sequence is setup and what settings are chosen on export.
The problem I'm having is that even after I've already rendered all the effects in my edit, can watch it at full quality in real time playback, when I export it takes as long as it did to render the sequences in the first place... if not longer. For example a 8 minute video is looking at 1.4 to 2 hours for an export with "Match Sequence Settings" checked. And yes I did try "use previews" as well.
My confusion is that, doing this same task in FCP takes seconds. I've worked in ProRes422 and exported ProRes422 in maybe 10 seconds for a 5 minute edit.
Here... I'm assuming that my sequnce settings aren't quite right somewhere. Any help is greatly appreciated.

My source footage is usually 1920x1080i ProRes HQ. Then I usually export to 1920x1080i mpeg-2. My sequence settings are generally always 1920x1080i I always leave my preview codec set to the default since I never use the "use previews" option. Generally I always just use the standard mpeg-2 i-frame only preview option since I don't mind if my preview is lossless or not since I don't ever use the "use preview" option.
Basically what I was trying to point out was that you where saying here that it would take hours to export a 30min program.
As an example if you have a 30 minute edit, and need to change a lower 3rd, and export out the change, it would take hours because the export would be re-rendering every graphic and effect for the entire show.... ever, single time.
So I was wondering what type of specs your system had if it takes it hours to export a 30 minute program. Generally speaking I almost always export to mpeg-2 because that's what our play-server in at our station supports. Unless it's a promo or HQ master copy of something that needs to be archived.
Also to answer your last question I never check the sequence settings option since I prefer to select all my options on my own because I have customized presets anyways.
If you'd like I will test the "use previews option" but quite honestly I don't usually ever need to render my timeline to preview stuff unless I try to do animations inside Premiere. My stuff always just plays in real-time. I do however agree that if you take the time to render your stuff in the timeline it SHOULD export faster so I'm not really sure why you're experincing such long wait times, but I did just want to point out that for me my timelines always export much faster than a few hours.
Also are you talking about using FCP7 or FCP X? Because the few times I used FCP7 on my friends Macbook pro it was terrible I had to render everytime I changed a single key-frame. It kept saying "warning dropped frames" It was a terrible experince. So basically I was stuck having to render something over and over and over. But when using Premiere I don't have to render very often unless I'm trying to animate something or work on something with really heavy CC, scaling, effects etc.

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