Slow rendering compared to CS3

I'm sure this has been addressed somewhere in this forum already, but was hoping for any new suggestions.
In a nutshell..simple renders and exports to wmv/quicktime/ etc. of mostly :30 second clips, with not a lot of transistions or effects take an enormous amount of time. Frequently almost an hour in AME..same clips in 32 bit cs3 a couple of minutes. Longer times with maximum render quality checked, which I would expect. Any help appreciated. I'm wondering if Windows 7 might be a part of the problem, but have tried all the tricks to improve performance. I must be missing something..realize that the 4600 card is not Mercury enabled.
Thanks in advance.
Windows 7
Nvidia Quadro 4600
HP xw 9400
dual core 3.2GHZ
16 GB ram

CS5 has been optimized to use SSE4.1+ instruction sets to the max, much more that with CS3. Now this is guessing, because I just don't know the intricacies of CSx, but it may well be that optimizing that code can have negative effects on the performance of CPU's that don't fully support SSE, meaning AMD.
Second, the memory management has been seriously overhauled, and the result is that the page file is used to minimal degrees as long as it can be avoided, but the downside is that latencies when swapping from RAM to VRAM and vice versa increase.
Now, it all seems incredible that CS5 will be slower than CS3, but there are so many things going on under the 'hood', that it is hard to give a solid and understandable explanation. Maybe Steve can enlighten us a bit, but he pretty busy right now, so you may have to wait a bit.
FYI, not every new update or version is faster than previous ones. Sometimes the performance decreases because bugs were removed, stability improved, or other not directly discenrible features added.
Another thing you should not forget is that support for multiple formats has increased significantly, as has added functionality. These were induced by popular demand, but the downside is that it increases the overhead of the program, reducing responsiveness. IMO Adobe should now stop to add esoteric supported formats for mobile phones, mobile toilets, and other not video related gadgets and improve further on the basics. They have done a tremendous job with CS5 and I hope they continue in this way and not spend efforts to accept even more formats.

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Within FCP, this is where I get confused because of all the options.
In the "Easy Video Setup" portion, I have...
Format: Apple ProRes 422
Use: Custom
- Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48khz
- Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz
- Device Control Preset: Non-Controllable Device
- Playback Output Video: Digital Cinema Desktop Preview - Main
- Playback Output Audio: Default
- Edit to Tape/PTV Output Video: Same as playback
- Edit to Tape/PTV Output Audio: Same as Playback
In the "Audio/Video" Settings, I have the following...
Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48khz
Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48khz
Device Control PReset: Non-controllable device
Video Playback: Digital cinema desktop preview - main
Audio Playback: Default
Sequence Presets: Default settings for DV NTSC 48kHz
Capture PReset: Default settings for DV NTSC 48kHz
Device Control: Non-controllable device
a/v devices: digital cinema desktop preview - main
- mirror on desktop checked
- audio: default
- 'do not show external av device warning' is checked.
Now, if I right click on the project in the "Browser" window and choose "Sequence Settings", I have the following...
Frame Size: 640x480 NTSC 4:3
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601/DV 720x480
Field Dominance: None
Editing Timebase: 29.97
Quick Time Compressor: H.264
Quality: 100%
Audio Rate: 48khz
Audio Depth: 16 bit
Audio Config: Channel Grouped
Video Processing: All grayed out except 'normal' is selected for motion filtering quality.
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Now, this is where I get really confused with FCP. Everybody says to set it up with the same settings you use to record. Does the "Easy Video Setup" work hand-in-hand with the "Audio/Video Settings"? Should you skip the easy setup and just jump into the A/V Settings?
WHile typing this message, I also noticed that the "Sequence Presets" in the Audio/Video Settings are set to 720x480 using millions of colors. In the settings for the file in the "Browser" Window, I have it set to 640x480, which is different than what's in the av settings. Should these be the same?
I'm just getting started with FCP, and these are just the questions I have. What is the 'workflow' one takes to do this? Start FCP, setup the 'audio/video settings' area, choose the preset, edit the sequence preset to something basic, and then drag and drop your mov files in? I suppose it's just confusing because you can set the video settings in FCP, in the 'easy setup', if you right click on the project and choose settings, etc... Which one has precedence over the entire project?
Sorry for so many questions.
Thanks in advance...

Very slow page rendering compared to ie and windows...

I recently setup a 64 bit athlon pc for a friend and have noticed that web pages load extremely fast using either firefox or ie on the windows machine compared to my power mac and power book running either safari or firefox. I've tried a lot of the suggestions to get safari to load pages faster but nothing seems to work. Am I alone here with this issue or do others notice this as well? I'm currently on a 6 mbit cable connection.
Any suggestions?

It's possible that you are having a problem with some Firefox add-on that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?
Whenever you have a problem with Firefox, whatever it is, you should make sure it's not caused by one (or more than one) of your installed add-ons, be it an extension, a theme or a plugin. To do that easily and cleanly, run Firefox in [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode safe mode] (don't forget to select ''Disable all add-ons'' when you start safe mode). If the problem disappears, you know it's from an add-on. Disable them all in normal mode, and enable them one at a time until you find the source of the problem. See [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes this article] for information about troubleshooting extensions and themes and [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+plugins this one] for plugins.
If you need support for one of your add-ons, you'll have to contact its author.
If the problem does not disappear when all add-ons are disabled, please tell me, so we can work from there. Please have no fear of following my instructions to the line, as all can be easily undone.

Adobe Photoshop cs4 - Really slow rendering ?

Hello all,
I have recently started using Photoshop at home again as needed for a course assignment and i have noticed how slow the rendering has gone!
It takes approximately 4minutes to save a .TIFF or .PSD file now and/or even takes 1/2minutes in order to resize a layer?
I am not sure what the problem is, but it also does it on Photoshop CS5 in my college. Is it my files causing this error?
My mac in general has been looked after, and is in immaculate state, therefore i do not believe the hardware is causing the problem.
Any help is deeply appreciated!
Thanks,
Jesse @ pca.ac.uk

Im thinking it could be my harddrive, its a new one since.
Could this be why?
Chris Cox wrote:
Could be large files
I doubt it, I have dealt with larger files before and i had never had this problem!
lack of RAM
Mines 4gb, if remember correctly. It's the latest Imac with dual core 500gb hd and was it 2gb?
Either way, my imac does not seem to be handling anything else at a slower rate, it is just photoshop. Bridge was working perfectly when i created a pdf for my presentation!
slow disk
Is this my Hard drive you're talking about as mentioned above?
All the work is saved on my Seagate external/portable hard drive. And said before, i think i have been experiencing problems with it since using it? Is that possible. If so, it might actually explain my problems during college too.
bad utility software (antivirus keeps biting people on file IO), etc.
could you explain more about this? Any ways of making sure it was this being the problem? IO?
Oh, and in some cases it can be caused by third party plugins (FontAgentPro had a bug like that).
Since owning this version of photoshop, i havent actually had the need to download any plugins. because i also on a pc with cs3.

Slow rendering from DVCPro-HD to MPEG2-DVD?

I have a home built PC with a quadcore 9450 chip, 8GB ram, Vista-64 Business, Mercury rendering (GTX460) - so it's not a particularly slow machine. My current project is 2 hours, 45 minutes long, shot on DVC-Pro HD 720-30P. It is one continuous take from a concert. I've added chapter points for each song, but otherwise have not edited it (besides mixing the audio levels.) With CS5, to export to MPEG2-DVD (VBR-one pass, quality level 5) takes about 16 to 17 hours. A friend with an i7 computer (which I built for him) says I need to contact Adobe because it should not be taking that long to render. If I import the Premiere sequence directly into Encore, that render takes only a few hours (not sure of the exact time) but the quality sucks. My 17 hour render looks pretty awesome for such a long project. With CS4 and a similar length project, it was around 7 or 8 hours with the same machine. Is something wrong, or is it normal for such long render times?

If I understand it correctly, your time-line is 2:45 (hh:mm) long and takes around 17 hours to export. Correct?
That is pretty good for a Q9450 with 8 GB RAM. Those systems are on average around 15 - 20 times slower than a fast system with MPEG2-DVD export, so it would take a fast system around 1 hour. Now that looks like a perfectly acceptable figure. You have to keep in mind that with hardware MPE you can only compare that with CS4 export times with MRQ (Maximum Render Quality) turned on, and my guess is that you are comparing it to CS4 times WITHOUT MRQ.
Have a look at the PPBM5 Benchmark and notice where the Q9450 systems are. They are all pretty close to the bottom of the list.
Seeing those results, one can argue your statement.
so it's not a particularly slow machine.
Of course much depends on your particular time-line, but if I take my benchmark results (with a lowly i7-920) versus another Q9450 system, I guess that my export times with your time-line would be around 1:06.
Maybe not the reaction you were looking for, but I can't change statistical results.
@ Colin: The OP never said he has MRQ enabled. Where do you get that from? He said he had hardware MPE enabled. And with his timeline, setting MRQ on would not influence his export times, since there is nothing in his single track time-line to profit from MRQ and it is all handled by the MPE engine. At least in this case.

Horrible drawing performance in Flash CS5.5 compared to CS3 on Mac

I have decided (again) to try and move on to a later version of Flash. I was on CS3 for a very long time, and so far did not have any reason to upgrade mainly because the new versions are just terrible. But I never give up. So I was told that Flash CS5.5 is the most OK to upgrade to, and with some extensions I can get it running almost like CS3. So I setup the app, the shortcuts, the extensions, the workspace, it takes like half a day, and then I discover, that I literally cannot draw on the damn thing with my Wacom pen. Because the performance is just cr***p !!! Drawing tools in Flash are so bad anyway, but now it is even worse. When I draw a curved line Flash CS5.5 just cannot process it and creates many corners with straight lines. It is obviously seen when drawing fast lines - look at the attached pictures how CS5.5 performs much much worse than CS3 (I have reduced Smoothing to 0 to get a clear idea of what's happening). What is the matter here? It isn't even funny! We buy all those new technologies for thousands of dollars to discover, that I can draw better with a mouse on Windows Paint from year1990?!
I'm on MacBook Pro 17" i7 QuadCore, 2.3 Mhz, 16 GB RAM, and the Wacom tablet works perfect on all other apps. I assume there is no way that the problem is somewhere outside Flash CS5.5 itself, especially that CS3 shows much better results. I am gonna try Flash CS6 just to compare, but I didn't like many things there too, so probably I'm going to stay in Flash CS3 forever...
Flash CS5.5:
Flash CS3:

I have the latest Wacom drivers for my model - it's the same driver for all Intuos and Cintiq models. Besides, as I said - the performance is perfect in all other software, except Flash. And also as I said - in Flash CS6 the performance is better than CS5.5, but not better than CS3... It is acceptable though, because it's rare that I will draw such fast lines - in my case I can see a clear difference in performance if I draw fast or slow. I have tried to compare results on my older MacBook Pro and I get similar results...

Hardware Rendering=broken preview (CS3)

Hey guys, im new to the forums, but I've recently encountered some strange behavior. I used to have dual monitors setup but only used one in bridge(didnt use the other for previews) and i was able to use hardware rendering just fine. Then i moved and i left the second monitor off and then images started displaying in a weird section of the preview pane, and part of it is translucent.
I enabled software rendering and it fixed the issue(as per in the support site, it said dual monitors can cause this) but the rendering is a bit slow.
How can i get it back working like it used to with hardware rendering?
Computer is:
Athlon 64 x2 6000+(3.01~ghz)
4gb DDR2 667
512 DDR3 Vram(ATI Radeon HD 3850 chip, with recently updated driver)
1tb WD Barracuda boot/cs3 installed on
640GB WD Green Scratch disk
Thanks in advance
-Josh

This is a hardware issue from the video card or driver. You say you updated the driver and if this this the latest one prehaps the old one you had worked better. Migtht try rolling back to the version where it worked. If this does not work you might have to replace the video card for something faster.

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