Why Does Magix Movie Edit Pro take forever to Mix down

actseep wrote on 8/22/2013, 4:06 PM

Hello,

I am editing in Movie Edit Pro 2013, importing mp4 video files I am doing very small edits as in cliping out only a few seconds of each video file,
and no effects at all applied, in total there are about 6 to seven mp4 clips, the final run time with all clips combind is 47Min. Now when I do the
final Mixdown of all clips into 1 video file I am mixing it into an Xvid file format. Can you explain why the final mix down would take 6 hours???
for only a 47 Min Video???? I have a pretty decent desk top designed for graphics and Video Mix down time should not take such a long time,
this is incredible! is there anything Magix can do to develop the editor that would excelerate the mix down time, I mean 6 full processors and it takes that long?

Also Magix Is a Pain in the ASS to get a hold of to answer any question, Tried the Contact tech Support and It does nothing. This is one of the things that PO's me about Magix you can't get a straight answer from them. they want to charge you for tech questions.

My PC:
HP Pavillion HPE - FX Vision AMD Desk Top
6 Prosessors
Reardon HD Graphics Card
12 GB of Memory Ram
4GB of Ram devoted to Graphics and Video
2TB Hard Drive space

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 8/23/2013, 1:38 AM

. . . . you explain why the final mix down would take 6 hours??? . . . .

Assuming the source and destination are HD then the following affect rendering speed

I think you have a serious bottleneck in your computer system because:

With a single hard drive the software is trying to read and write the source and destination video plus Window is using the paging file as a temporary store through to the same drive - this introduces a serious bottleneck for data transfer rates particularly as the HP spec indicates the motherboard has SATA 3 ports.

After a lot of experimenting I run a three drive system - all are SATA 6 -

Drive 1 - Seagate Barracuda 1TB - Windows and software installation

Drive 2 - Seagate barracuda 2TB - all data

Drive 3 - 60GB SSD drive - rendering to this drive then final copy back to drive 2.

With this I achieve an average render speed of 40 - 50fps on a Intel i5-4670K, Gigabyte Z87-D3HP motherboard, 16GB Ballistix RAM, Windows 8, hard drives as above - this sytem has not been tweaked yet.

HTH

John