Takes Three Hours to preview a file in Premiere

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Takes Three Hours to preview a file in Premiere

Postby kearlywi » Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:38 am

I am using method 3 for editing with premiere as detailed in EADFAG. In other words I edit with PicVideos MJPEG codec then switch it out with a pure AVS file at the end: fast editing with perfect quality.

One problem. When I cut out my clip and use a special effect on it (or anything that requires a preview to render, such as fading with opacity rubber bands) premiere begins to preview the entire file that my clip originated from. This means previewing 7,000 frames instead of 70, which means up to 100 times the wait. Sometimes I luck out and my clip came from the begining, meaning I only have to wait for 500 frames. However I am still screwed pretty badly when my clip comes at the end (with waits upwards of 3 hours for a 1 second clip).

I have tried cutting clips in several manners, cutting and sending to timeline, copying and renaming it completely in another bin, and cutting a file within a cut file within a cut file, and I have also tried putting handle bars at the EXACT point of the clip I want to render. All 4 methods had the same result, they are still linked to my original, and still preview EVERY damn unwanted frame. :x
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Postby kearlywi » Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:08 am

got it :D

Before I was simply hitting enter on the clip that I wanted, and was hoping this would preview just that clip. (this works if your clips were premade in vdub using huffyUV compression, each clip being a separate .avi file.

This time I used the yellow bar at the top of the screen and placed it EXACTLY over the space that I wanted to preview, then I hit enter. Now my preview does 70 frames instead of 7000! Yay. :P
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Postby kearlywi » Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:16 am

Scratch that, it doesnt work even for separate avi files. 8)

For those of you who are having the same problem, use the yellow bar.
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:19 am

also check what preview codec you are using. You should use the picvideo codec for speed - you can see the preview codec in the Project settings menu > Video.
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Postby klinky » Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:05 am

I swear I thought you said you'd been using Premiere for years :/


Yellow bar is your god minion!
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Postby klinky » Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:07 am

Maybe it wasn't you and I am being an ass...


Still... Manual is your friend. Had you read the manual, you wouldn't have had to ask that silly question...
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Postby Pwolf » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:13 am

i've been using premiere for like 3 years.... what yellow bar!!! OMG!!!
i like the realtime preview that 6.5 has. no rendering... well kinda :|


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Postby klinky » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:22 am

Realtime preview is such a joke. Stupid Adobe. Premiere 6.5 was basically adobe going "look at us tack crap on to make it seem cool, but not really cool."


*A bloated title tool that crashes and takes forever to load!
*Renaming "render to ram" to "real time previews".
*Crappy MPEG2 support that installs a crappy DirectShow filter that messes up all my mpeg2 files by not resizing the aspect properly.

:roll:

That's about it really.
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Postby Pwolf » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:25 am

well the ram preview then... works good for me, so i'm not complaining ^_^


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Postby klinky » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:27 am

I wasn't suggesting you were wrong there Pwolf. Adobe just didn't actually "add" a feature, they just renamed it and tried to pawn it off as a new one. $200 upgrade >_>. Sheesh.

Try a Radial Blur >_>
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Postby Pwolf » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:33 am

never said you were saying i was wrong :D im just saying i like the ram preview. hehe. i want to give pro a try but i dunno if i should waste my money on getting it and windows xp (i only have 2k pro & server). so far what i got works so i think i'm good for now. Radial Blur? wasdat dew? well i'm guessing blur.. but why try it... something else adobe said but doesn't work?



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Postby kearlywi » Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:44 pm

See my joined date? March 23, 2003. Thats when I started to learn basic encoding (i.e. DVD2avi, avisynth, virtual dub, etc.) I've only been using premiere for about 2 and a half weeks, although I am honored to think someone confused me for a seasoned veteran 8)

Yes AD, I am using PicVideo Mjpeg codec (I am following the guide to the letter, at least as far as technical themes).

So far my amv (over the last 2 weeks) has taken 60 hours to complete the first 35 seconds. Im not using any exotic special effects, but having to constantly preview and modify tiny parts is amazingly time consuming.

I think its funny that there were so many posts after I posted my problem, then corrected it, then posted that I had fixed it myself. People must live in these forums! :wink:
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