Devin Johnston Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Every time I export an animation it takes forever, the reason is it's using 1 of my 8 available processors and only about 7% of the one it's using. Is there a way to make Premiere use all available processing power when encoding animation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfa2 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 2.0 made Premiere a multi-threaded app....are you using XP or Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 I'm using XP64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Someone must know if Premiere is able to use more than one core when exporting!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I'm using XP64. I just tried it, same results you have. I have 2xquad-cores, most activity in cores 4 and 8, little to nothing in the others six. The overall CPU usage lists as between 12 and 18 percent. This is with Premiere CS3 outputting to a QT and AVI file. I looked at the 'Preferences' settings and there is only one that might make a difference, it is a choice between 'performance' and 'memory', nothing on threading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Thanks Ernest I guess I'm not doing it wrong then, Adobe needs to improve their software in a serious way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 software only using one processor instead of all processors in a machine has been common in modeling applications for years, so maybe it is the same thing. ...for modeling apps it was explained to me that often one procedure needed to be executed before the next procedure could be executed. sending instructions to multiple processors was just not feasible, because the next process was reliant on the previous process. granted this was circa 1998, and i was using a dual pentium 2 266 i think. however, i do think it is still the same when it comes to modeling apps today. i am pretty sure apps like Revit do the same thing, but i don't know how it applies to video compression. maybe it is comparing frames, and it can only compare frames after the one before it has been processed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 Even if that's true why does it only use 20% or less of the available speed on the processor it is using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 don't know. i actually skimmed the thread, and thought the information might be applicable because it is not using all of the processors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 don't know. i actually skimmed the thread, and thought the information might be applicable because it is not using all of the processors. That's not it. Looking at the TaskMan bar-graphs of core activity showed rather sparse usage of the two cores that had much activity at all. C4D also only uses part of the CPU cores available for many things, but rendering uses all 8 at near to 100%. For Premiere, outputting a movie is its version of 'rendering'. It should use all guns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I'm finding the same problem rendering out some longer videos. I've got 4 cpu's and it's only using one of them. Any insight here since this was last discussed from anyone? Premiere Pro CS3 on WinXP 32bit. Thanks, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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