I'm working on a 32min long video, about 50% is 5D2 clips, the other 50% is Sony HXR-NX5E clips.
They all have the next effects:
looks (nothing heavy, just some curves)
fast color correct (more or less just for small corrections)
collorista II (a bit of HSL tweaking, nothing much)
a bit of added sharpness
And nothing less.
All the 5D2 clips are already rendered (green line in timeline) and now I'm about to render the sony clips. They are just a bit over 16min long (alltogether) and when hitting render it is telling me it will take 12 hours :/
Considering from the experience it will probably take around 8-9hours and not 12 (when rendering much shorter clips it starts with some estimated time left and than about 50% in drops by half..don't know why).
My computer is:
i7 2600k - not clocked at the moment
32gb ram
570gtx
Is this normal? I never worked with videos longer than 3-4 minutes and I'm not used to waiting 12hours for rendering. If I do not render the clips and leave the line above them in red I do not get them to play flawlessly on my 2nd monitor for checking the progression of the editing (doesn't really matter if I leave it at full resolution or drop it to 1/4 - if the clips are not rendered it will not play smoothly and will freeze every couple of seconds).
I tried both settings under "memory" - for Performance and for Memory. So far it seems that if I leave it for Performance that it will take 12hours, if set to Memory it starts with 19 hours.
Looking at the task manager tells me that while rendering under Performance settings my CPU is being used between 75-85% and my memory is aroudn 6-9GB (at the moment of writing this post, 15min ago it was at 16gb out of 32gb). If I switch to Memory setting, the CPU is used at around 40-60% and Memory goes up to 10gb. In the Premiere pro settings I have 26Gb of RAM allocated for Premiere Pro.
Along with editing I only have running 2 tabs in Chrome and winamp. Everything other worth mentioning is closed.
So should this really take 12hours? :/