Slow Rendering

Is anyone else experiencing slow rendering since updating? I am looking at my activity monitor and it's not hardly using any ram while rendering. This is absolutely frustrating!

Unless you're dealing with large format still images rendering doesn't use RAM it uses the CPU and in some instances the GPU.

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Motion in FCPX - click lag, hanging, tortuously slow rendering

Hello Colleagues,
I have 2 iMacs of different generations, both up-to-spec and up-to-date on OS, FCP, and Motion.
I am experiencing very poor performance when using Motion "generator" graphics: lag, hanging, slow renders, and sometimes even crashing.
I have verified folder permissions, verified fonts, eliminated all converted events/libraries from pre-10.1 - pretty much everything except uninstalling, trashing prefs, and reinstalling fresh.
Still, FCP seems to be FIGHTING ITSELF, with iStat showing that more than half of CPU effort is being used by "system" instead of "user" at any given moment (when Motion assets are present and enabled).
The performance is far poorer than it ever was on FCP7 with Motion 4, and it is far worse than FCP10.0.x with Motion 5 (one of my machines was previously used with FCP7, however, the newer one has been FCPX since its unboxing day in early 2013).
Does anyone have any suggestions for the next step in troubleshooting this problem?
Thanks,
Eric - CoralVision

Yay it's Luis and Russ! Hello colleagues!
Luis: I tink I posted a link to one of the troublesome assets for you, but I limped through the completion of that project by keeping the inspector closed. I still suffered lots o click-lag, spinny balls, and, at the end, an overnight render, but I got through. This was on a 90minute show choir concert that had about 12x 8 second lower 3rds, and about 3 minutes of full screen titles, rolls, and credits. All of the FCP generator assets were made by me from scratch in Motion5. The current post relates to a similar problem, but on a different machine with different assets. The current complaint is from my slightly older iMac (lower power than the new one but still quite capable when using the former versions of this software), and the generators came from Motion projects which were originally created in Motion4. So unless there is something wrong with my practice in using FCPX generators, something in common across the 4 or 5 projects where I have experienced similar problems, I think that a corrupt template is an unlikely explanation.
Russ: I run my systems stock - that is to say that the only 3rd party plugins I have installed are the Canon EOS and XF plugins I use for ingesting media. I don't have any plugins related to MoGraph, editing, rendering, or memory management. These are custom generators that I am creating, chasing the "template" functionality I used to enjoy between Motion and FCP7. So yes, user generated custom generators - and I have had similar problems with several batches of varying complexity and varying origin.
For now I will just have to adapt, observe, and troubleshoot. I have a sneaky feeling that I am doing something wrong in the way I am setting up the motion projects for publication, but I will surely announce it loudly if I learn anything new.
Thanks for checking in, fellows!
Eric D - CoralVision

SLOW rendering times

Hi!
One of my biggest gripes is the slow rendering times with FCP. I know that it's some setting that I have wrong, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. I started with HD video captures using the ProRes 422 codec, but it would take a REALLY LONG time for it to render.
For simplistic sake, I started again with just a simple video I took of a screencast. The video is saved using Quicktime in 636x480, HD.264, and a SD (6-1-6) color profile. There is also no sound to the movie...just video. I figured that this would be a really simple way to try some things out, but I was wrong.
I setup FCP as a number of different codecs and resolutions. I imported the file by just dragging and dropping the .mov video into the Browser in FCP. I then dragged and dropped it to the timeline, and did a render/all.
Even by doing this, it is taking 8 minutes to render a 2 minute video. There must be something I'm doing wrong, and I can't figure it out. I was watching a youtube FCP demo and this guy rendered a video in about a minute on a g5. Being I have a dual-core intel, I can't imagine it taking as long as it is. I appreciate any help and I know there's a million threads out there...but I just can't seem to grasp this.
Thanks!

Hi! I suppose the information below would be helpful. I'd like to get started with a screen capture from Snapz Pro X. Here are some answers to the questions...
Program: Snapz Pro X Screen Capture v2.2.2
Record Settings Used:
- Compression Type: H.264
- 30 Frames Per Second
- Key frame every 500 frames
- Encoding Mode: Single-pass
- Compressor Quality: Best
FCP Version: 7.0.2
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.
================
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...

Slow rendering of JSP pages

Hello,
We are in the process of upgrading iPlanet 4.1 to 6.1Sp2. We have made enhancements to our code to support this effort, ie making our session bean serializable, adding the context dir in jsp to jsp calls.
Right now we are noticing slow rendering speed for jsp pages compared to iPlanet 4.1. It seems the page loads to a certain point, there is about 2-4 second delay before the page completes loading.
I've activated the monitor for performance statistics.
Here is the perf dump.
webservd pid: 8109
Sun ONE Web Server 6.1SP2 B04/07/2004 16:09 (SunOS DOMESTIC)
Server started Tue Jul 13 10:33:08 2004
Process 8109 started Tue Jul 13 10:33:08 2004
ConnectionQueue:
Current/Peak/Limit Queue Length 0/1/4096
Total Connections Queued 11
Average Queue Length (1, 5, 15 minutes) 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Average Queueing Delay 0.15 milliseconds
ListenSocket group1:
Address http://10.201.1.53:80
Acceptor Threads 1
Default Virtual Server https-infa.net
KeepAliveInfo:
KeepAliveCount 2/256
KeepAliveHits 44
KeepAliveFlushes 0
KeepAliveRefusals 0
KeepAliveTimeouts 8
KeepAliveTimeout 30 seconds
SessionCreationInfo:
Active Sessions 2
Keep-Alive Sessions 0
Total Sessions Created 48/256
CacheInfo:
enabled yes
CacheEntries 27/1024
Hit Ratio 82/140 ( 58.57%)
Maximum Age 30
Native pools:
NativePool:
Idle/Peak/Limit 1/1/128
Work Queue Length/Peak/Limit 0/0/0
Server DNS cache disabled
Async DNS disabled
Performance Counters:
Average Total Percent
Total number of requests: 57
Request processing time: 1.2522 71.3780
default-bucket (Default bucket)
Number of Requests: 57 (100.00%)
Number of Invocations: 866 (100.00%)
Latency: 0.0003 0.0174 ( 0.02%)
Function Processing Time: 1.2519 71.3606 ( 99.98%)
Total Response Time: 1.2522 71.3780 (100.00%)
Sessions:
Process Status Function
8109 response service-dump
response service-j2ee

Here is a sample of jsp that renders partially. Each page renders to the same spot for that page, then there is a 5-10 second delay before the page finishes.
<-- Partial Page rendered -->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> FAST : Health Check</TITLE>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/table.css">
<script>

</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY BACKGROUND="/graphics/BACK25.jpg" BGPROPERTIES="FIXED">
<SCRIPT>
var menuBarOption = "";
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT>

</SCRIPT>
<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
<TR>
<TD width="85" height="600" bgcolor="#000066" VALIGN="TOP">
<BR>
<SCRIPT>
var publicSCRMOption = "PROCESSES";
</SCRIPT>
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ALIGN="LEFT">
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFFFFF">
<STRONG> FAST Menu </STRONG></FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "WEBTRENDS")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/fast/fast.htm"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> WebTrends</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "PREMIER")
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else
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</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/fast/premierLogin.jsp"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> Premier</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "PROCESSES")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/faf.unix.servlet.GetHealthCheckServlet"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> Processes</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "EDISTATUS")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/faf.unix.servlet.GetEDIStatusServlet"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> EDI</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "SANIT<--- End of Partial Page --->
This is the complete page which take about 5-10 seconds
<--- Beginning of Completed Page --->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> FAST : Health Check</TITLE>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/table.css">
<script>

</script>
</HEAD>
<BODY BACKGROUND="/graphics/BACK25.jpg" BGPROPERTIES="FIXED">
<SCRIPT>
var menuBarOption = "";
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT>

</SCRIPT>
<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
<TR>
<TD width="85" height="600" bgcolor="#000066" VALIGN="TOP">
<BR>
<SCRIPT>
var publicSCRMOption = "PROCESSES";
</SCRIPT>
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ALIGN="LEFT">
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFFFFF">
<STRONG> FAST Menu </STRONG></FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "WEBTRENDS")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/fast/fast.htm"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> WebTrends</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "PREMIER")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/fast/premierLogin.jsp"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> Premier</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "PROCESSES")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/faf.unix.servlet.GetHealthCheckServlet"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> Processes</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "EDISTATUS")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/faf.unix.servlet.GetEDIStatusServlet"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> EDI</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "SANITYCHECK")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/faf.unix.servlet.GetSanityCheckDiagnosticServlet"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG>Sanity Check</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "FASTBOOK")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/fast/fastBook.htm"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG> FAST Book</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD height="15" NOWRAP>
<SCRIPT>
if (publicSCRMOption == "AWBREPORT")
     document.write(' <img border="0" src="/salesCRM/graphics/rarrow.gif" width="8" height="12">');
else
     document.write(' ');
</SCRIPT>
<A HREF="/servlet/faf.unix.servlet.AWBCountReportServlet"><FONT SIZE="-2" FACE="verdana, arial, helvetica" COLOR="#FFCC66">
<SPAN STYLE="{text-decoration:none}"><STRONG>AWB Report</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</TD>
<TD width="715" VALIGN="TOP">
<DIV ALIGN="right">
<font size="1" color='black'><script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/date.js"></script></font>
</DIV>
<H4> Process - Health Check</H4>
<form name="processes" method="POST">
<BLOCKQUOTE>
AS400 DATA PULL - HEALTH CHECK (For IT Personnel Use)
<BR><BR>
<table border="1" bordercolordark="#003366" bordercolorlight="#003366" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="90%">
<tr bgcolor="#003366">
<TD align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">NAME</b></font></TD>
<TD align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">RUN</b></font></TD>
<TD align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">STARTED</b></font></TD>
<TD align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">FINISHED</b></font></TD>
<TD align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">FLAG</b></font></TD>
<TD align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff" size="2">RECOVERY</b></font></TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> CLIENTAR </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 6/30/04 9:56 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/30/04 10:00 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> CONTAINERALERT </TD><TD align='center'> DAILY </TD><TD align='left'> 6/23/04 6:00 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/23/04 6:00 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> DAYMONTHREVENUE </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 6/23/04 5:20 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/23/04 5:39 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'>   </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> FADAILYREVENUE </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 6/30/04 10:13 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/30/04 10:19 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> FAONTIMECOMPLIANCE </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 7/15/04 2:44 PM </TD><TD align='left'> 7/15/04 2:47 PM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'>   </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> FAPAYROLLLOCS </TD><TD align='center'> WEEKLY </TD><TD align='left'> 6/18/04 4:30 PM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/18/04 4:30 PM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> FAPROCESS </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 6/23/04 4:00 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/23/04 4:02 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> FATIMESHEET </TD><TD align='center'> WEEKLY </TD><TD align='left'> 6/18/04 4:30 PM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/18/04 4:39 PM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> CLEAR DB AND RESTART PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> FAVOLUME </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 6/30/04 10:30 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/30/04 4:15 PM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> HP_EMPEXTRACT </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 7/26/04 7:10 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 7/26/04 7:10 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> HP_HOURSLOAD </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 7/26/04 7:10 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 7/26/04 7:10 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> HP_PUNCHPROCESS </TD><TD align='center'> Daily </TD><TD align='left'> 7/26/04 7:10 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 7/26/04 7:10 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> MONTHLYVOLUME </TD><TD align='center'> Monthly </TD><TD align='left'> 6/1/04 12:00 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/1/04 12:11 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD align='center'> PREPAIDRATEMAP </TD><TD align='center'> DAILY </TD><TD align='left'> 6/29/04 10:26 AM </TD><TD align='left'> 6/29/04 10:38 AM </TD><TD align='center'> SUCCESS </TD><TD align='left'> RESTART THE PROCESS </TD>
</tr>
<TR bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<TD colspan="6" align="center">
<B>Total records returned : 14</B>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</form>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/publicFooter.js"></script>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML><--- End of Complete page --->

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.

How do I fix extremely slow rendering with buffered images?

I've found random examples of people with this problem, but I can't seem to find any solutions in my googling. So I figured I'd go to the source. Basically, I am working on a simple platform game in java (an applet) as a surprise present for my girlfriend. The mechanics work fine, and are actually really fast, but the graphics are AWFUL. I wanted to capture some oldschool flavor, so I want to render several backgrounds scrolling in paralax (the closest background scrolls faster than far backgrounds). All I did was take a buffered image and create a graphics context for it. I pass that graphics context through several functions, drawing the background, the distant paralax, the player/entities, particles, and finally close paralax.
Only problem is it runs at like 5 fps (estimated, I havn't actually counted).
I KNOW this is a graphics thing, because I can make it run quite smoothly by commenting out the code to draw the background/paralax backgrounds... and that code is nothing more complicated than a graphics2d.drawImage
So obviously I am doing something wrong here... how do I speed this up?
Code for main class follows:
import javax.swing.JApplet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.event.*;
import Entities.*;
import Worlds.*;
// run this applet in 640x480
public class Orkz extends JApplet implements Runnable, KeyListener
     double x_pos = 10;
     double y_pos = 400;
     int xRes=640;
     int yRes=480;
     boolean up_held;
     boolean down_held;
     boolean left_held;
     boolean right_held;
     boolean jump_held;
     Player player;
     World world;
     BufferedImage buffer;
     Graphics2D bufferG2D;
     int radius = 20;
     public void init()
          //xRes=(int) this.getSize().getWidth();
          //yRes=(int) this.getSize().getHeight();
        buffer=new BufferedImage(xRes, yRes, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
        bufferG2D=buffer.createGraphics();
          addKeyListener(this);
     public void start ()
            player=new Player(320, 240, xRes,yRes);
            world=new WorldOne(player, getCodeBase(), xRes, yRes);
            player.setWorld(world);
           // define a new thread
           Thread th = new Thread (this);
           // start this thread
           th.start ();
     public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
          //works fine
     }//end public void keypressed
     public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e)
          //this works fine
     public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e)
     public void paint( Graphics g )
           update( g );
    public void update(Graphics g)
         Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
         world.render(bufferG2D);
         g2.drawImage(buffer, null, null);
     public void run()
          // lower ThreadPriority
          Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);
          long tm;
          long tm2;
          long tm3;
          long tmAhead=0;
          // run a long while (true) this means in our case "always"
          while (true)
               tm = System.currentTimeMillis();
               player.moveEntity();
              x_pos=player.getXPos();
              y_pos=player.getYPos();
              tm2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
                if ((tm2-tm)<20)
                 // repaint the applet
                 repaint();
                else
                     System.out.println("Skipped draw");
                tm3= System.currentTimeMillis();
                tmAhead=25-(tm3-tm);
                try
                    if (tmAhead>0)
                     // Stop thread for 20 milliseconds
                      Thread.sleep (tmAhead);
                      tmAhead=0;
                    else
                         System.out.println("Behind");
                catch (InterruptedException ex)
                      System.out.println("Exception");
                // set ThreadPriority to maximum value
                Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
     public void stop() { }
     public void destroy() { }
}Here's the code for the first level
package Worlds;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import Entities.Player;
public class WorldOne implements World
     Player player;
     //Location of Applet
     URL codeBase;
     // Image Resources
     BufferedImage paralax1Image;
     BufferedImage paralax2Image;
     BufferedImage backgroundImage;
     // Graphics Elements
     int xRes;
     int yRes;
     double paralaxScale1,paralaxScale2;
     double worldSize;
     int frameX=1;
     int frameY=1;
     public WorldOne(Player player, URL codeBase, int xRes, int yRes)
          this.player=player;
          this.codeBase=codeBase;
          this.xRes=xRes;
          this.yRes=yRes;
          worldSize=4000;
        String backgroundImagePath="worlds\\world1Graphics\\WorldOneBack.png";
        String paralax1ImagePath="worlds\\world1Graphics\\WorldOnePara1.png";
        String paralax2ImagePath="worlds\\world1Graphics\\WorldOnePara2.png";
        try
        URL url1 = new URL(codeBase, backgroundImagePath);
         URL url2 = new URL(codeBase, paralax1ImagePath);
         URL url3 = new URL(codeBase, paralax2ImagePath);
        backgroundImage = ImageIO.read(url1);
        paralax1Image = ImageIO.read(url2);
        paralax2Image = ImageIO.read(url3);
        paralaxScale1=(paralax1Image.getWidth()-xRes)/worldSize;
        paralaxScale2=(paralax2Image.getWidth()-xRes)/worldSize;
        catch (Exception e)
             System.out.println("Failed to load Background Images in Scene");
             System.out.println("Background Image Path:"+backgroundImagePath);
             System.out.println("Background Image Path:"+paralax1ImagePath);
             System.out.println("Background Image Path:"+paralax2ImagePath);
     }//end constructor
     public double getWorldSize()
          double xPos=player.getXPos();
          return worldSize;
     public void setFramePos(int frameX, int frameY)
          this.frameX=frameX;
          this.frameY=frameY;
     public int getFrameXPos()
          return frameX;
     public int getFrameYPos()
          return frameY;
     public void paralax1Render(Graphics2D renderSpace)
          int scaledFrame=(int)(paralaxScale1*frameX);
          renderSpace.drawImage(paralax1Image,-scaledFrame,0,null); //Comment this to increase performance Massively
     public void paralax2Render(Graphics2D renderSpace)
          int scaledFrame=(int)(paralaxScale2*frameX);
          renderSpace.drawImage(paralax2Image,-scaledFrame,0,null); //Comment this to increase performance Massively
     public void backgroundRender(Graphics2D renderSpace)
          renderSpace.drawImage(backgroundImage,null,null); //Comment this to increase performance Massively
     public void entityRender(Graphics2D renderSpace)
          //System.out.println(frameX);
          double xPos=player.getXPos()-frameX+xRes/2;
         double yPos=player.getYPos();
         int radius=15;
         renderSpace.setColor (Color.blue);
        // paint a filled colored circle
         renderSpace.fillOval ((int)xPos - radius, (int)yPos - radius, 2 * radius, 2 * radius);
          renderSpace.setColor(Color.blue);
     public void particleRender(Graphics2D renderSpace)
          //NYI
     public void render(Graphics2D renderSpace)
          backgroundRender(renderSpace);
          paralax2Render(renderSpace);
          entityRender(renderSpace);
          paralax1Render(renderSpace);
}//end class WorldOneI can post more of the code if people need clarification. And to emphasize, if I take off the calls to display the background images (the 3 lines where you do this are noted), it works just fine, so this is purely a graphical slowdown, not anything else.
Edited by: CthulhuChild on Oct 27, 2008 10:04 PM

are the parallax images translucent by any chance? The most efficient way to draw images with transparent areas is to do something like this:
     public static BufferedImage optimizeImage(BufferedImage img)
          GraphicsDevice gd = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getDefaultScreenDevice();
          GraphicsConfiguration gc = gd.getDefaultConfiguration();
          boolean istransparent = img.getColorModel().hasAlpha();
          BufferedImage img2 = gc.createCompatibleImage(img.getWidth(), img.getHeight(), istransparent ? Transparency.BITMASK : Transparency.OPAQUE);
          Graphics2D g = img2.createGraphics();
          g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
          g.dispose();
          return img2;
     }I copied this from a util class I have and I had to modify it a little, I hope I didn't break anything.
This piece of code does a number of things:
- it allows the images to be hardware accelerated
- the returned image is 100% compatible with the display, regardless of what the input image is
- BITMASK transparent images are an incredible amount faster than translucent images
BITMASK means that a pixel is either fully transparent or it is fully opaque; there is no alpha blending being performed. Alpha blending in software rendering mode is very slow, so this may be the bottleneck that is bothering you.
If you require your parallax images to be translucent then I wouldn't know how to get it to draw quicker in an applet, other than trying out java 6 update 10 to see if it fixes things.

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.

Really slow rendering on Mac Book Pro Retina

Hi
I am using adobe premiere on a mac book pro retina and the renders are reallyyy reallyyy slow. Usually takes 30 mins for a 2 mins timeline to render.
Iv also tried rendering the same timeline on a windows machine and it takes 5 mins ( 1/6th ) for the same render.
Please provide me a solution ASAP since its eating my production time.
Thanks
Shivang

Hello, since you jumped on to the previous thread I can copy you in on my query ..
This question seems to have been posted before..
I came from Windows land and have used Premiere since '97..
"Let's try a super spec Macbook and have a mobile editing suite.. Great!"
I generally work with DSLR footage, H264 codec and .wav files.
Imports and scrubbing is great, applying effects starts it slowing down and I'll adjust playback to 1/2 or 1/4 resolution.
And that's just on one layer of video..
Now, when it comes to exporting in general, a 50 second clip takes over 30 minutes to render.
Very frustrating..
I mainly export using the existing presets for YoutubeHD and VimeoHD.
Can't get my head around why it takes so long and I am hoping that perhaps a re-install or a fundamental preference setting will solve it.
In my preferences, I've allocated 11GB of memory to Adobe Production Suite applications and I rarely run 2 at a time.
Scratch disks are set to project folders, on a 4GB RAID1 drive connected via Thunderbolt protocol
Tech specs :
Processor - 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory - 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3
Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Storage - SSD 500GB
OS - OS X, v10.8.3
I look forward to hearing back from you and thank you in advance

Premiere Pro CC continuous crash and extremely slow renders on a new Mac Pro.

Hello,
recently we changed our editing machines with the new Mac Pro with this configuration:
- CPU 3,5 GHz 6 core Intel Xeon E5
- 32 GB RAM
- 2x AMD FirePro D700 6 GB
we work on a server connected to the Mac Pro in Dual Ethernet configuration.
The rendering of a sequence at 1920x1080 with 3 video tracks (video footage converted at ProRes 422 LT, a title on a linked After Effects Comp and a PSD graphic overlay of a small logo) of the length of about 3 minutes it takes about 4 hour... when it doesn't crash.
When it crash, usually when i simply scroll the timeline, i receive an error message very long (if you want I can send you a rtf file about it, it's too long to paste it here).
These are my system information:
- Premiere Pro CC 8.2.0 (65)
- I've installed every updates available at this time
- OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
Thank you very much in advance, and sorry for my bad english.

Thanks Andrea for your assistance in reporting that additional information. You have come across an intermittent bug which has been reported by other users with no reliable repro steps for us to follow in house. So it appears to be mainly system specific, but we're not even sure which sorts of systems demonstrate it yet.
One other thing to try is clearing your media cache files (from preferences > media panel). In the meantime,e the best thing to do is make sure you submit those crash logs to adobe whenever you get them. This helps us identify common thread among various users who may be experiencing the same problem. Also, if you have time, please file a bug report describing the steps that caused the issue in your case: http://adobe.ly/ReportBug
Please be as specific as possible when describing your steps. Without a repeatable case, a bug like this is very, very difficult to fix. Thanks again for your support.
To work around the sloe render for AE comp problem, please try right clicking on the comp in the timeline and then choose the "Render and Replace" command to transcode it out to a more easily handled format. This should help a lot with your performance slowness, and you will still have the ability to restore the original comp files if needed.

Slow Rendering Problem

I have been unable to find a solution in the forums for this common problem, so my apologies for raising a novice's question.
I have been absent from working with FCP X for a year now. Previously I worked on ver 10.0.6 with Snow Leopard. In November I had a hard drive failure which was replaced by Apple and the system was upgraded to Lion 10.8.4. On returning now to do some video work, I have upgraded FCP to 10.0.9 but find rendering is now so much slower.
I have tried a simple test with a single clip of video, using the “far far away” title generator.
It seems to have stalled despite leaving it to run overnight. A year ago I had nothing like these problems when I produced a 30min HD video using various title generators..
My system is a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3, Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB with a 21.9 screen (2009).
Have I reached a stage where my system no longer matches the requirements for FCP 10.0.9? Or have I forgotten some parameters that are essential to importing AVCHD HD video?
I’d be grateful for any advice.

I certainly don't disagree that your system is not the ideal for FCPX. And your planned upgrade should make a huge difference in your editing experience.
But an overnight render for a title? To me it seems likely that your drive went into sleep mode, or there is something that isn't right about the set-up.
By way of comparison, we have a 2008 MBP Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM and the 2 GPU setup, (Nvidea 9400 and 9600). For video work it's primarily used with FCP7, and it works very well.
We also have FCPX installed. Just for kicks, I tested how long Far & Away took to render; it took under 20 minutes on that woefully under-speced machine.
Best of luck.
Russ

Another slow rendering report

Hi all,
I'm having trouble with a very simple report that's rendering way too slow. And yes, I did look at all the other posts about performance, but none of them seem applicable.
It's a very simple, single page, single integer parameter report, with between 1 and 4 or 5 rows in a dataset. The report is being exported as pdf, all via webservice to a frontend web application. As expected, TimeDataRetrieval and TimeProcessing are mostly
between 10 and 20ms with the rare exception. However, TimeRendering is anything from 500 to 50,000ms! That just seems to be a ridiculous amount of time! Using the SSRS web frontend the same report renders to RPL in about 700-800ms for the first one and then
10-50ms for following ones. Export to pdf this way still takes 13,000-16,000ms.
I checked server loads, I can't even see memory or cpu change in response to a request. ReportServer database and temp database are well below 20mb each.
We're running sql server 2012 rtm. The reports ran on 2008r2 before with no such issues. I initially just attached the existing report databases, worked fine but soon noticed the slow response on the website, so I created a new one from scratch, same issue.
Ideas anyone? Surely this can't be right, especially since it's been running fine on 2008r2! What am I missing!?
Thanks heaps.

Take a look at AdditionalInfo xml column
SELECT * FROM [dbo].[ExecutionLog3]
You can see what task takes time <TotalTimeDataRetrieval>59</TotalTimeDataRetrieval>
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Cad converted to PDF, very slow rendering upon opening Document.

The Rendering when opening the document is very slow.
It takes about 45 seconds to open, then it freezes for another 10 seconds before one can view it.
iv'e read alot and tried different suggestions, but no solution so far.
Testet on Adobe Reader 10.1 and 9.2, and Acrobat 9.1. All the same.
The Document it self has been coverted form Cad to PDF, and has a very large resolution, it is 1.8MB, upon opening Reader uses about half a gig ram.
I've read that on opening, it has to rescale the image to fit ones resolution, and this is what takes time?
Simply wondering if anyone has any solution or explanation to why.
Thanks.
-Berg

Drive A is 60 GB with 3.66GB free.
Running OSX from that drive should really slow it to a Crawl, and is getting to the dangerous point... you need at least 12GB fre, 30 GB would be better.
Nt certain why the other is so slow... did you open Activity Monitor & observe CPU, Memory & such while it is slow?
If you can free some space on the Internal, Might give a try with Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

Slow rendering on rMBP when display is off

I'm batch rendering Premiere Pro CC timelines to MPEG 2.
These are 3 minute movies that take about 30 minutes when I render them direct from Premiere Pro CC.
When I queue them in AME the rendering goes slower.
Renderings then take up to 40-50 minutes. So in AME it's slower. But these times are do-able.
The rMB from late 2013 is blowing like hell (that's a good thing becuae then rendering goes fast). But when my display turns off after 15 minutes the rendering slows down. Renderings then take up to almost 2 hours per movie. The blowing of the fan stops when the display is off. But apparently the rendering speed as well.
In the preferences panel from the Mac "put hard disks to sleep when possible" is unchecked.
Of course I can have my screen always turned on. But another rMBP from mid 2012 has burn-in issues because of that.
So I'd rather have AME working when the display is off.
Could this also be an Open CL thing?
**UPDATE**
Rendering also slows down when minimizing the AME window!! It has to be active otherwise my rendering slows significantly down.
I hope there is a solution for this

Go to System Preferences>Energy Saver. Set the slider labeled "Computer Sleep" to "Never". When the Computer is sleeping, all currently running processes are put on pause. Your "Display Sleep" and "Computer Sleep" were probably both set to 15 minutes, so that it appeared as if the display going to sleep was the reason the blowing fan stopped.

Incredibly slow rendering when editing raws from the new Nikon D800

I would be happy to hear from users of the D800 and Apple's "Aperture" 3.2.3. My own experience is that the rendering of f.inst. a "burned" file/picture (Raw-file) is incredibly SLOW....what is your experience. Any knowledge of whether Apple will come forward with an upgrade of Aperture?

mamster37 wrote:
I am fully aware of all about the file size, and that one should expect a slow down in the rendering, but this is really a significant slow down, and unless Apple come up with a solution I am afraid that one is obliged to find other solutions for the editing of Nikon D800 raw files. My details are:
MacBook Pro Intel
OS: Mac OSX, 10.7.3 Lion
Installed memory: 8GB
You have not described which MBP CPU/GPU, drives SSD/HDD, how full any HDDs are. That is essential information.
As all the photo sites have discussed, the D800 files are huge and will require more horsepower to handle. With a new D800 you are the experimenter here on the bleeding edge of technology, so all of us will learn from your observations.
I would guess that only the strongest Sandy Bridge MBPs with 8-16 GB RAM will do well. I was doing fine with 8 GB RAM (zero page-outs) and then recently I did some very aggressive Photoshop/Aperture work and page outs skyrocketed: I need more RAM, and I don't have a D800 yet so my NEF files run only ~20 MB each. How large (MB) are your NEF files?
You can evaluate whether or not you have adequate RAM by looking at the Page Outs number under System Memory on the Activity Monitor app before starting a typical work session; recheck after working and if the page outs change (manual calculation of ending page outs number minus starting page outs number) is not zero your workflow is RAM-starved. Ignore page ins, the pie charts and other info in Activity Monitor.
If your test shows that page outs increase at all during operation it is affecting performance. You can
• add RAM as feasible
• restart with some frequency if you suspect memory leaks (common especially with less-than-top-quality applications)
• and/or simply try to run only one app at a time, for sure diligently closing unneeded apps like browsers
• and/or switch 64-bit operation to 32-bit operation (which will make some additional RAM space available). Note that your Mac may already default to 32-bit. See Switching Kernels:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4287
Note that RAM is cheap and heavy apps' usage of more RAM is a good thing. Photoshop for instance has been able to under OS X take advantage of up to at least 32 GB RAM for years.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
-Allen
EDIT: Note my focus on discussing RAM above is because that is all we know about your MBP. It does not mean that I necessarily suggest that RAM may be your primary issue.

Slow Rendering Time After Installing Final Cut Studio 2 Upgrade

I have a Mac Pro with two dual core processors, 8 GB of Ram, and 1 Terabyte of storage. I'm running the latest version of OSX. Ever since I upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2 my rendering time in Final Cut Pro 6 has become painfully slow. For example, it now takes at least an hour to render a short 5 minute video project. A project that size used to take just a few minutes. I uninstalled Final Cut Studio using AppZapper because I couldn't figure out how to remove the program any other way. Then, I reinstalled Final Cut Pro 6, but it didn't fix the problem. I called Apple's Final Cut Studio tech support, but they just had me upgrade Final Cut Pro 6 to 6.0.1. Unfortunately, this didn't fix the problem. Everything worked fine with Final Cut Pro 5, but ever since we upgraded everything has fell apart. Can anyone give us any insight into fixing this problem? So far, Apple's Final Cut tech support has been unable to find a solution.

Just a couple things to double check.
1. Repair Disk permissions, RESTART.
2. Try setting your RENDER DRIVE to something Different than the Media drive, RESTART.
3. Try Hosting your Media on a new Drive, RESTART.
Also, at this point since you are having system problems, I would backup all of your Media, Projects, etc. I just read a post of someone else that didn't have backup of their project and it became corrupted. I use Lacies SilverKeeper to automatically backup about 20 times a day, so we have dupes of at least all our Projects. And the first thing I do every morning is start the system up, repair disk permissions, and RESTART.
The reason why I suggest restarting after each attempt at changing preferences and such is so that the next time you load FCP it loads the settings that you have saved/changed as native settings as opposed to changed settings, this does make a difference. You will know what I am talking about if you have experienced the Log & Capture Input problem for FCP 5.
Let me know, I have some other suggestions if these don't work.

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