Motion 4 very slow

I have an i5 with 3.1 Ghz processor and 8 gb memory. Motion 4 is very slow, I cleared the ram and still slow. Under preferences I have the cache at 80% and I don't open any other programs while working in motion or final cut. Should I add more memory or get a new processor? I searched this forum and did tried all the recommendations I could find but still having trouble. thanks

Sorry forgot to add I am on Lion 10.7.4 and my graphic card is AMD Radeon HD 6970 m 1024mb

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Motion very Slow - help!

I've got a 106 frame clip with 2 layers of particles on it. It plays back very slowly and any time I try to change a parameter, I get 10-20seconds of the rainbow ball. I've read a number of threads about sluggish Motion and no matter what graphics card they are using, whoever answers the question always says their card is too slow. I've got 4.5 GB of RAM and an Radeon x850 card. I find it very hard to believe that this kind of hardware would result in such incredibly slow performance. I hope I'm doing something wrong in Motion (just started). Any ideas? Thank you.

Heya,
There are a number of things that can slow down a project by impacting either or both of the CPU and GPU. Let's talk about particle-related ones:
On the GPU side:
Are your particle elements too big? i.e. are the particles persisting/moving way off-screen? if you don't need them to live that long, try adjusting their Life value. The longer they live, the further they move, the larger that object gets, and Motion has to render the whole thing.
On the CPU side:
Particles are a simulation and their locations have to be calculated on the CPU. The more particles there are, the more work that has to be done. Other factors like simulation behaviors can add a lot to those calculations.
Also, the nature of simulations is that conditions are set up and the simulation runs from the beginning. So if you have a project with an emitter that starts at frame 1, when you make any changes at frame 300 Motion has to recalculate the simulation from frame 1. Only if those changes affect the particles, of course. But if you combine multiple emitters with many particles and behaviors, it can take a bit for Motion to re-figure it all.
Hope this helps

Motion very slow saving files

Hi
I am new to Motion, and am probably doing something wrong but...
I am trying to assemble still frames into a movie. I have maybe 2000 frames and I drop them onto a custom project which is a 720x576 25fps clip with the number of frames set to 2000.
Before I export using compressor (which works fine and at a good speed), I save the Motion project. This takes AGES! Maybe half an hour. Activity monitor shows one core running at 100% all this time.
Is this normal?

It probably has to do with the fact that there are 2000 individual files in your project.
You could open them as an image sequence in QT and then save as a QT movie and THEN import into Motion. That way you only have 1 file in your project.
Then again, if all you're doing is assembling the frames into a QT movie, I'd just do the above procedure in QT Pro instead of Motion. Using Motion for that is like swatting a fly with dynamite.
Andy

Motion is getting very very slow?

hello, all of a sudden motion is becoming very slow.. im not even doing anything complicated at all.
its at a crawl.. even when i click the playhead, it will not play.. i have rebooted and have pleanty of ram ect....
any suggestions?

I had the same problem exactly, only mine slowed down with the keyframe editor open mainly. To fix it, i just unplugged my second display while using motion 3. Even if i wasnt using the second display for motion windows it still caused major slow down. I unplugged the second display and BOOM, no more slow down. Mind you I never used my second display for motion anyway but it didnt matter. It was so slow that i couldnt use it. Also, i had both displays plugged into my x1900. Maybe a separate card for each display would cure this? I would say the reason apple hasnt addressed this issue is because there is nothing they can do about it. Short of a complete redo I dont see ant quick fix they can apply. They know its a problem and Im sure they are working on it. Apple is always fast with updates and if this one is being looked over than its not because they havent noticed. Its just one of those things that will be fixed, but until then maybe apple should give out a little disclaimer saying not to use dual display on one card when using motion 3. Im not saying this will solve everyones problem but it sure solved mine. When im not in motion i plug my display back in. Its a little annoying but i can deal with it. At least I found why mine is slowing down. And the funny thing is, it would only do it in the keyframe editor. No second display now, and no problem now.

My Macbook Pro is running very slow lately

Lately my macbook pro is running very slow.
What can I do to improve this?
I've run Etrecheck and these are my results:
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
          1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 1:5:53
Disk Information:
          Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0 : (320,07 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 319,21 GB (123,28 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information:
          Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
                    Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Configuration files:
          /etc/hosts - Count: 65
Kernel Extensions:
          com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard          (5.8 - SDK 10.6)
          org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv          (4.1.2)
          org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB          (4.1.2)
          com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          (1.5.2)
          com.sophos.nke.swi          (9.0.53 - SDK 10.8)
          com.sophos.kext.sav          (9.0.53 - SDK 10.7)
Startup Items:
          PACESupport: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PACESupport
          VirtualBox: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
Launch Daemons:
          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.leapmotion.leapd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mice.360Daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
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          [System] com.sophos.configuration.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.sophos.intercheck.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.sophos.notification.plist 3rd-Party support link
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          [System] com.sophos.sxld.plist 3rd-Party support link
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          [System] hdjsd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
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Launch Agents:
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          [System] com.dell.bmlaunchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.dell.dellnetlaunchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.leapmotion.Leap-Motion.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.sophos.uiserver.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.wacom.pentablet.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
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          [not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist 3rd-Party support link
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          [not loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist 3rd-Party support link
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          iPrint: Version: (null) 3rd-Party support link
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
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          AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.9 3rd-Party support link
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
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          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
Safari Extensions:
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Audio Plug-ins:
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iTunes Plug-ins:
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          Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
          Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
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          Solver:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins/Solver.app
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                    Microsoft Word:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft PowerPoint:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
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                    Microsoft Database Utility:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Office Reminders:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
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                    SyncServicesAgent:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Open XML for Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Alerts Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Database Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Chart Converter:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Clip Gallery:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
          dynamiclinkmediaserver:          Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclinkmediaserver/1.0/dynamiclinkmediaserver.app
          licenseDaemon:          Version: 1.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/licenseDaemon.app
          Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
          Audacity:          Version: 2.0.5.0 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app
          /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0
                    Microsoft Foutenrapportage:          Version: 2.2.9 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Ship Asserts:          Version: 1.1.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          SA Color Finesse 3 UI:          Version: 3.0.6(275) - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins/Effects/Synthetic Aperture/(CF3 Support)/SA Color Finesse 3 UI.app
Time Machine:
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
              29%          Finder
              26%          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
               8%          WindowServer
               2%          InterCheck
               1%          iTunes
Top Processes by Memory:
          147 MB          SophosScanD
          139 MB          InterCheck
          139 MB          Google Chrome
          139 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          131 MB          iTunes
Virtual Memory Information:
          2.34 GB          Free RAM
          2.41 GB          Active RAM
          1.92 GB          Inactive RAM
          1.33 GB          Wired RAM
          509 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs

I've deleted some of the things that I thought would help and this is what Etrecheck gives me now:
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
          1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 0:31:28
Disk Information:
          Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0 : (320,07 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 319,21 GB (137,31 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
                    Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Configuration files:
          /etc/hosts - Count: 65
Kernel Extensions:
          com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard          (5.8 - SDK 10.6)
          org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv          (4.1.2)
          org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB          (4.1.2)
          com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          (1.5.2)
Startup Items:
          PACESupport: Path: /Library/StartupItems/PACESupport
          VirtualBox: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
Launch Daemons:
          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.leapmotion.leapd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.mice.360Daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] hdjsd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] PACESupport.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
          [System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.dell.bmlaunchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.dell.dellnetlaunchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.leapmotion.Leap-Motion.plist 3rd-Party support link
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User Launch Agents:
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iTunes Plug-ins:
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Time Machine:
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Top Processes by CPU:
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Top Processes by Memory:
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Virtual Memory Information:
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          0 B          Page-outs

VERY slow backup to external Hard Drive

I have an older external HD case (New Motion) with a Western Digital 120GB Hard Drive that I use for backup, firewire only.
I use this drive on my old slot loading iMac G3 (10.3.8) and it runs very fast, copying 16GB from the iMac to the backupin about 15 minutes.
When I connect the backup drive to my G5 iMac (10.4.2) it runs VERY slow at night, taking 6 hours to copy the same amout of information.
I notice that during the day it takes less time, but still about 1.5 hours. (The night/day differences are consistent).
Is this an issue with Tiger or a setting in Tiger or how Tiger talks to firewire, or an issues with the G5 iMac? (Both firewire ports work fine with my iPod updating music).

Hi robfromkinglake west,
Try and isolate the issue. Check if it's only with this drive.
Check the drive with Disk Utility
Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1782
I've never seen a drive take 20 minutes to mount.
Nubz

AE CS4 on OSX 10.5 Very Slow, Makes System Unresponsive

This is very frustrating, our company has been fighting this problem since we upgraded. I work for a major broadcaster which uses AE for all our motion graphics work. Since upgrading to CS4 we've experienced a team wide decrease in productivity. AE CS4 renders slower than CS3 and in some cases will completely lock up the computer when rendering, making it impossible to do any sort of simple multitasking. Even switching to the Finder and moving around windows is very slow. Let alone try to use Safari or type into a TextEdit document. We've tried everything, but details first.
We're running on last-gen 8-core 3.2GHz Mac Pro's. Each has 10GB of ram and 1TB of HD space (mostly empty). NVidia GeForce 8800 GT video card. Runing AE 9.0.2.42)
We realize that 10GB is not enough ram to use all 8 processors at full speed. So AE is set to use multiprocessing with a max of 3 cores with 2GB minimum with 2 GB in reserve for other applications. All the work we do is with HD footage. All footage is delivered in Apple Prores. Any comp of medium or greater complexity will completely slow down the system. When comparing CS3 rendering time to CS4, CS4 seems about 30-40% slower. When rendering CS4 will also completely lock up the system, switching windows is a complete pain. We've tried turing on and off OpenGL in AE, but no change. We're tried every combination of settings we can think of. Rendering without multiprocessing is even slower and still locks up the system. Also in Activity Monitor is will often show only limited CPU useage (see attached screen). You can see I'm running multiple aeselflink instances, but each one is no where near 100 and the system is still unresponsive!
Outside of rendering CS4 also is much more unresponsive when just working (not rendering). Moving clips around in the composition window and navigating the timeline are sometimes a chore, with lots of 1-2 second delays before taking the action. Or slow screen updates.
Any ideas what is happening here? If is something with the change from 32-bit to 64-bit. Will more ram fix it or is there something else going on? This is becoming a very frustrating situations where we have to completely restart the computer and make sure no other apps are running before even trying to render our anything. CS3 did not seem to have these problems, even with multiprocessing turned on at it's default settings. We like many of the new features in CS4 and are practically required to use it because we get a lot of projects from vendors, but it's proving very slow to work in.

I don't know how complex your comps are, but our are usually pretty complex. Simple comps with just text and 1-2 layers of video usually go pretty quick, but as soon as you ramp up complexity it slows way down. I somehow don't think that our graphics card is the problem. Most of the plugins we use do not see any benefit from OpenGL and we don't use that many 3D layers. In general we haven't seen a big boost in AE performance with OpenGL on or off. All our footage sits on a super fast Terrablock system with at least 300-400mb/s sequential read speeds. Then again it could be that AE just runs poorly on Macs.
Adolfo - we have done some quite extensive benchmarks with all our machines here. Configuring both 10GB and 16GB versions (we have not tried higher memory yet). We tested the same comp in both CS3 and CS$ with various multiprocessor settings. Our test file's complexity was indicative of the kind of projects we do. Around 30 layers, a mix of TGA sequences with alpha, QuickTimes with alpha (animation) and ProRes footage. Many layers with ReelSmart Motion Blur. A Knoll Light Factory lens flare. A mix of layers with various blurs and color correction and some transfer modes.
As you can see CS3 was much, much quicker at rendering the project. In some cases almost twice as fast as CS4. Also, strangely CS3 ran better limited to 4 processors in both the 10GB and 16GB configurations.
Benchmark Test File
CS3 Benchmarks
[note - CS3 has no options in the app for adjusting multi-processor settings. All edits had to be made in the pref file.]
10GB System -----------------
AE CS3
10GB
4 Processors
12m 43s
[note - This was the most optimized setting for CS3 which gave the best performance for us.]
AE CS3
10BG
8 Processors
24m 8s
[note - Default setting in AE CS3 for multiprocessor. System is completely unusable during render.]
16GB System -----------------
AE CS3
16GB
4 Processors
11m 54s
[note - This was the optimized setting for CS3 which gave the best performance. Each instance of the program was using 150-180 CPU in the activity monitor so it must be using more that 4 processors with this setting. Each processor used more memory than in the 10GB config.]
AE CS3
16GB
7 Processors
16m 15s
AE CS3
16BG
8 Processors
20m 13s
[note - Default setting in AE CS3 for multiprocessor. System is completely unusable during render.]
CS4 Benchmarks
In general CS4 is about half the speed of an optimized CS3. Going from 10GB to 16GB of memory gained us about 33% performance increase in the most optimized setting (4-6 processors at 2GB+ per processor).
10GB System -----------------
AE CS4
10GB total RAM
8GB reserved for AE (2GB reserved for OS)
3 Processors (2GB per processor)
24m 7s
[note - Computer response pretty slow]
AE CS4
10GB total RAM
8GB reserved for AE (2GB reserved for OS)
7 Processors (.9GB per processor)
28m 10s
[note - Computer completely unusable while rendering]
16GB System -----------------
AE CS4
16GB total RAM
8GB reserved for AE (8GB reserved for OS)
3 Processors (2GB per processor)
22m 57s
AE CS4
16GB total RAM
13GB reserved for AE (3GB reserved for OS)
4 Processors (2.33+ GB per processor)
18m 7s
AE CS4
16GB total RAM
13GB reserved for AE (3GB reserved for OS)
6 Processors (2.09 GB/Processor)
19m 1s
AE CS4
16GB total RAM
14GB reserved for AE (2GB reserved for OS)
7 Processors (1.85GB/Processor)
23m 4s
[note - This config made system very slow, left very little memory for the system.]
AE CS4
16GB total RAM
13GB reserved for AE (3GB reserved for OS)
7 Processors (1.59GB/Processor)
25m 50s

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Hi,
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No problem.
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I'm having problems playing f4v video is very slow. The size is 100 MB and resolution 1280x720. When I play out of Flash it reproduces well.
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Hello,
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If i load the same applets in Firefox things run smoothly.
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HI,
Open Java Preferences (Applications/Utilities) Select the Network tab
Click: Delete files
Relaunch Safari.
And empty the Safari cache from the Safari menu.
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Carolyn

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Hi
6 menus with motion .motn project files as the background
These items must be taking all the encoding time. They must be rendered and MPEG2 encoded by DVDSP.
Are they very complex and long animations?
The mpeg2 and ac3 files are already encoded and DVDSP will just mux them in the final files; that don't take so long !!
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Alberto

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Hello Seachange51,
Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More. I understand that your notebook is functioning very slowly, and I would be happy to guide you towards a resolution! To begin, I will need to ask you a few questions:
What is the Product and Model Number of your desktop computer?
Has your computer completed all of its important Windows Updates?
Have you updated your HP drivers using the HP Support Assistant?
Is this an on-going, or recent issue?
In the meantime, I recommend following this document on Improving System Performance without Adding Memory (Windows 7). This should help improve the speed and efficiency of your notebook.
Please re-post with the results of your troubleshooting, as well as the requested information above. I look forward to your reply!
Regards
MechPilot
I work on behalf of HP
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I recently upgraded my three year old ipad to IOS 8 and it's working very slow and sometimes freezes. Can I go back to the old system?

No, downgrading the iOS version is not supported by Apple.
You could see if any of the following improve things :
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Hello, I have an issue whereby my rendering is very slow. I am using premier elements 12 with a windows 8.1 computer that has an 8-core amd 8350 processor, 8 gbs of ram, and I have an AMD 7970 6gb video card crossfired with an AMD 280x video card. Crossfire probably doesnt even work, but even with just the 280x, it should be faster than this.
I capture game footage, which is captured in xvid format, which I then import into PE12. I don't add any effects, other than some color tweaking, and some brightness/contrast tweaking. Then I export it in the same specifications it was captured in (1080p 30fps). A 7 minute video takes about 20 minutes to render/export using MP4 codec. If I try to use other codecs, it takes even longer. On my Mac Pro, using other programs like iMovie, this sake video would take like 2 minutes, and it only has a 4-core processor at a much slower clock speed, and only has a 6870 amd video card, which is like 1/4 the power. I feel that either the 8-cores aren't being used, or something else is wrong. No rendering that doesn't involve complicated effects should take longer to render than the footage length is. If the video is 10 minutes long, it should take 1 minute to render if it doesn't have chroma keying or anything heavy like that. How do I fix this?

Thanks for the tip. Bandicam already works when I choose "motion jpeg", and it works very nicely as far as being able to record in very high quality without disrupting my gaming performance. The issue is that it still takes longet to render a video than the length of the video itself. So a 6 minute clip, for example, will take about 15-20 minutes. This is unacceptable when ther are no major effects going on, such as chromakeying. I should be able to render atleast at speed play (ie, if a video is 2 minutes, it should take no more than 2 minutes), based on performance I get on my lesser Mac with a lesser CPU, lesser video card etc. It may be the rendering settings. I am using the stock "youtube widescreen HD" preset in PE12, and i manually change teh 720p to 1080p (like my footage). What else can I try?
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