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RENDERING Advice.. Urgent

Hi Guys,

So i have been asked by a small company to make a few changes to a DVD that was produced by someone else.

It was shot in DV 4:3.

I have managed to rip the DVD onto my computer... The DVD contains 3 filmed seminars each last 1 hour.

Dimensions are: 720 x 540
Codec: Mpeg- 4 Video, AAC

i used a program to rip them called MacX -DVD-RIP.

Editing wise i have Final Cut Express and Premiere CS3...

In FCE i set the sequence to DV PAL (i live in UK) 48hz.

When i place the clips in the time line and click render it informs me it will take 11 hours!

Any thing i can do to reduce rendering time?
 
What's processor you ve got?

11hrs for 3 hours of video sounds about right for slower processors..

I have i7 with 10gb ram, and it takes me almost 30 mins to render 4 mins 720p video with just color corrections!

What can you do? Use va computer with the faster processor
 
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Hello,

AE as mentioned is a good way to compress file.
If you were on windows I would have suggest Format Factory but... mac!
If you really need to increase render time there are several things you can tweak:
-Compress the video file.
-Add more ram (though, I'm not sure it'll be very effective with any kind of commercial "large audience" processor).
-Buy a new computer. I've heard mac just got the latest XEON processor which should make you own a 24 cores beast, pretty handy when it comes to render (I'm using one, on Windows and the render time is a piece of cake for both video encoding and Visual Effects).
 
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