Video Encoding Tips & Tricks???

Sarus Crane

Sarus Crane

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I know this is a tech question, but I figured that since a majority of zoochatters would know about photo editing some might know about video editing too???

A lot of you have seen my videos and I use Adobe Premiere to make mine. Since the start of 2022 I've been filming most of them with my iPhone 13 Pro Max at 4K 60fps and I use a Alienware PC laptop with 16 GB of RAM to edit them. Normally everything is pretty fine when I'm exporting videos and they don't take too long to encode. Today I'm exporting my Animal Kingdom Lodge at night video and when I had my footage on the timeline in Premiere I noticed that a good portion of the animal bit was a little darker than how I saw it with my own eyes so instead of a multicolor contrast layer I replaced it with a lighting layer to brighten up the footage by 15%. The video started to encode at about 10:45am and is now nearly 4:30pm with Adobe Media encoder saying it has nearly 4 hr 30 min left to encode. Then it will have to be processed. Is this normal for just a simple lighting layer or when you insert ANY effect from Premiere's library of effects in a video's timeline????

Thanks for your help in advance. This is such a pain and feels like a waste of a day since just encoding the video is taking up 70% of my PC's memory.
 
Effects do normally take much longer. For comparison, I had a ten minute short film that I put together a little while ago with little effects and that still took a good 40 mins to encode.

There's not really much you can do but just leave it and wait. You can attempt to use a fast, high performance hard drive for your video files or a third party. But they're difficult to manage and won't make much of a difference either way.
 
Yeah, rendering a 50 minute 4K60 video is going to take a while, regardless of how you do it.

Also, laptop CPUs are generally lower powered than desktop CPUs, even on gaming laptops - and CPU power is important for rendering videos.
 
Simon Hampel said:
Yeah, rendering a 50 minute 4K60 video is going to take a while, regardless of how you do it.

Also, laptop CPUs are generally lower powered than desktop CPUs, even on gaming laptops - and CPU power is important for rendering videos.
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Yeah since 2020 I've decided the next computer I'm getting is a custom tower system where you can use an SSD and stack on as much RAM as you want! Editing 4K seemed impossible until spring 2022 when I discovered how to use proxies. Now the editing process is simple once I have all the proxies made.
 
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