Ten hours + to render six minutes?

Installed Premiere Elements 8 a few days ago - attempting my first "project" - pulled a dozen scenes totalling about 30 minutes worth from my Samsung SDHC camcorder - (standard defintion), edited them down to six minutes or so that might be worth watching and started rendering to upload to Photoshop Online. That was about four hours ago - it is still running (I just saw it tick over from 25 - 26% complete), showing 6h15mins remaining.
My machine should be more than capable of performing this: it's a 2.5GHz Core2 Quad with 8 GB of Ram, a Radeon HD 4800 video card, and plenty of disc space... running 64-bit Windows 7 ultimate... scores 7.2 on WEI...

I was trying to do the same thing and convert to FLV but gave up and converted to mpeg then used ' Handbrake ' to convert the files it took 17 minutes in premiere elements to render 35 min video to mpeg then another 20 to render it to MP4 for Vimeo at 1500Kbs and full frame. Elements is a little bit weird when it comes to outputting files. Handbrake is open source so it's free download and Vimeo site has a tutorial on settings under ' compression' and at the bottom of that page, is a link to ' Uegenia ' persons blog on it. Good luck!

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While I have been doing video editing for years, I am new to After Effects....Still, I went through the tutorials and Lynda.com, and I think I know my way around it well enough so that my renders should be working far more effectively than they are.
The big problem is the duration it is taking to have After Effects render a virtual Studio clip, whether I just use a 20 second clip of my reporter with a video playing behind them in an LCD tv set, or if I try to run a full 5 minute version of the entire show....Friday night I tried to run the full 5 minute version of one of , and it took over 36 hours!!! I am not getting any real help from Blue FX...either the support they offer is really for people that have been using After Effects for many years, and they can't imagine the issues I am having..or, maybe they feel that my issues are more After Effects issue than template issues.
When I first bought the template a month ago, the PC I had been editing with for years was not powerful enough by most accounts I have read, about what is useful for AE....So I put together a new PC, this one with 32 gigs of ram, an Nvidea 760 video card with 2 gigs of RAM, 8 hard drives and tons of fans for 24 hour operation.
Some of the things I don't know..... How long "should" one of these 3D virtual studios take to render, where you have already stripped out the greenscreen and are feeding the reporter video in with alpha channel on a quicktime 32 bit animation codec video....and have a 1080p hi res video playing in the TV behind the reporter--in the virtual studio...and you have all the 3 D renders and shadows and effects of the studio template being rendered? Do people really wait 24 to 30 hours for a 5 minute long finished rendering?
To give you an idea of the studio template and what my computer is having to process, here is a sample we did, no script, just trying to see how this would produce.....and this one I did in 25 second and 10 second chunks/renders, assembling later in Premiere,....still, the rendering was close to 20 hours.
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I have not sat around twiddling my thumbs waiting for AE's render cue to churn out a project in years. The only time I wait for anything is for ram previews. I also have some workflow suggestions for that.
Just as cell animators do, run motion tests with the most basic of your project's elements. By that I mean set Comp Resolution to automatic, set the Zoom factor to 50 or 25% and check how the motion works before you add any effects that are going to slow things down. If you have already added effects you can temporarily turn them off in the Timeline view
Check only critical frames or a few critical frames that are in transition (moving) at full resolution because RAM previews at full resolution are short and slow to render and you don't have time to mess around
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Hello.
I am new to Abode After Effects CC and its Adobe Media Encoder CC
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Please can you tell me where I am going wrong.
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Emily.

It almost killed me, I tell ya. But I FINALLY got it figured on this end. I don't know if this will help you, Emily,, but after the war I just waged, I gotta tell somebody.
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AND DRUM ROLL!......
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I still haven't been able to get the second two templates to work - but I just got done rendering my project on the first template and it worked like a charm. So that's when I decided to pop over here.
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>Screensavers written for the PowerPC
>System Preference add-ons
>All Unsanity Haxies
>Browser and other plug-ins
>Contextual Menu Items
>Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
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>Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
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Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
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3. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
4. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
5. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.
If you are not able to use a Firewire connection (for example you have a Late 2008 MacBook that only supports USB:)
1. Set up a local home network: Creating a small Ethernet Network.
2. If you have a MacBook Air or Late 2008 MacBook see the following:
>MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)- Migration Tips and Tricks;
>MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)- What to do if migration is unsuccessful;
>MacBook Air- Migration Tips and Tricks;
>MacBook Air- Remote Disc, Migration, or Remote Install Mac OS X and wireless 802.11n networks.
Copy the following items from your old Mac to the new Mac:
>In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
>
>In your /Home/Library/ folder:
>/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
>/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
>Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
>
>/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
>/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
>/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
>/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
>/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
>/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
>
>If you want cookies:
>
>/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
>/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
>
>For Entourage users:
>
>Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
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>
>Credit goes to Macjack for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.
Revised 1/6/2009

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Don't use compressed audio -- change ac3's, aac's or mp3's to wav or aiff.
Turn off the multiprocessing--it probably isn't helping one bit, and you may have it set up wrong, too.
Render to a quicktime movie in Animation, Photo JPEG or PNG codecs. Compress later
Just before bedtime, hit the Render button, have a nice night's sleep, and see how things are doing in the morning.
Compress to mp4 using Adobe Media Encoder.
And FYI: things that you call "minor effects" may in reality be quite processor-intensive, meaning AE has to work harder, meaning it'll take a good deal of rendering time.
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