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This page modified 07 Nov 2001 - with request for help with AMD based computers that seem to be giving slow rendering times.

Craig Procter has indicated a solution which is given below in instruction 6 and hopefully will help to tweak out better times.

P6 IN EDITING MODE:

There is always a lot of dicussion over how fast a PC is in editing mode so here is a test file for Premiere 6 that will provide a typical test to benchmark your computer and P6 in editing mode.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) make a folder named Render_Test on you hard drive preferably D:
2) unzip the contents of this benchmark file to that folder.
3) copy the prs files for project settings and export to your P6 settings folder.
4) run up P6 and load the project I named as Render_test or simply double click the project file.
5) save exit and reboot your computer and reload the project again.
6) render an output file [ctrl-M] from the export setting and time the render from the point of the flash export screen appearing to when it disappears. DO NOT USE PREVIEW as a prelude to this test. Be sure to use the provided export settings.

Note: Craig Procter has offered this as a solution to slow rendering times. If you have these options available be sure to use this process for exporting:

Quote "After loading the 'Render Project.prj' you need to press CTRL-M to export movie, click on LOAD SETTINGS and select 'Render Test Export' then OK. Enter a filename (or leave it as 'Untitled.avi) and away you go!"

Record the following information (my results are shown):

COMPUTER = P3 800 - W98SE, RAM = 384/133, MB= Asus CUSL2, SPECIAL = none
AVI RENDER TIME = 5 minutes 13 seconds

If your encoding to SVCD with avisynth, this test would provide some additional information (not essential):
P6/avisynth/TMPGEnc 12i SVCD, 2400/224, CBR, GOP= 132, slowest encoder speed, NTSC mpeg2 file (TMPGEnc 12i project file is provided in the download). My time was = 3 minutes 23 seconds.

Email the results to me rmclennan@gmx.net and I will tabulate them as they arrive.

NOTES:
The project is based only on stills and uses only one overlay track, to save space there is no audio. It is set for NTSC and uses the Cinepack codec as the standard, we all have it so it is a commom starting point for the test. The reboot is only to ensure we start from the same point for the test.

Hope it will present some interesting results in a comparison.

PREMIERE 6 RESULTS:

Name	Computer	Ram	M Board	AVI - secs	TMPG 12i
Harry Fechner	Toshiba Notebook Satelite Pro 4600 P3 900 - W98SE	384	-	105	-
Mahmud	AMD XP 1800+ - W2k Pro	512 - DDR 266	Gigabyte GA-7DX	110 [using CP method]	-
Igor	Pentium 4 2.4G XP	512 - DDR 266	MSI 845PE Max	123	-
Craig Procter	AMD XP 1500+ - W2k	512 - 133	ASUS A7V133 bios v1.07	125	-
Ross McL	Pentium 4 2.4G W2k	512 - DDR 266	MSI 865PE Neo2 Dual Processor	134	-
Evan	Athlon 1.3Ghz - W2k	512 - 133	QDI KinetiZ	137	100
Craig Procter	Athlon 1Ghz - W2k	512 - 133	ASUS A7V133 bios v1.07	168	-
Mike Velte	Athlon 1Ghz - W2k	512 - 133	Abit Kt7	176	117
Craig Procter	P4 1.6G - W2k	512 Rimm	MSI MS6523LE	195	-
Peter Nash	Dual P3 1000 - W2k	768 - 133	Gigabyte GA-6VXDC7	248	-
Bart Conover	P3 1000 - NT	512 - 133	ASUS CUSL2	251	-
Steven King	P3 1000 - W2k	512 - DDR	Gigabyte GA-6RX	252	111
Ross McL	P3 800 - W98SE	384 - 133	Asus CUSL2	313	203
Jim R	P3 450 - W2k	384 - 100/133	TABOR II	591	-