Re: Render Time is KILLING ME... Premiere Pro CS3

Jeff - thanks for the heads up on the Matrox Card. They have a great website about their product but not exactly clear to a novice how or what their product does.

I grabbed another newer PC (Dell Optiplex 760) that is running a single Duo Core E8400, 4 GB Ram and a SATA II drive. I installed Vista Business 64 bit last night and plan to download the trial for CS4 to see if I can improve my performance there. Unfortunately the PC form factor will not allow me to add another drive otherwise I would give that a shot. If I see a significant improvement I will push for an Dell XPS (Intel i7 unit) with what I need. I'm locked into a Dell unit here in the office so I can't stray on PC equipment.

My documents don't exactly blow up full screen, it is really just another JPEG image of the blown up document portion that I have manipulated the position and scale setting to appear as if it comes out of the document, this image is in another track above so I can still maintain my cropped and resized video in the upper corner and the original document in the background. I tried your suggestion of exporting the frame but it grabs the entire frame or everything in the frame view. In other words, if I do that it basically screen shots the entire preview screen including the video. I'm wondering if there may be a way for me to incorporate this into my workflow so that I could just lay in the video on an above track but it seems like that could really get complicated.

I didn't know about using the enter key to render the timeline. I'll have to do some research on that. I'm not familiar with this process and don't know what it is doing exactly as far as what it is rendering and to what format etc. This could be something of a time saver if I could render the timeline as I proceed in my project. I just need to know more about this.

Thanks,
Jim