Color corrected video produces at a rate of 1

Rusty Trader

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Mar 12, 2022 19:10

I tried Color Director using presets. I'm running a Ryzen 7-3700, 64g 3600 mem, GeForce GTX1650 super and Win 10. This setup has been pretty quick producing a 12 min video in around 12 - 15 min. This time, using a smilar mix of materials, I used Color Director last to apply presets to all the small video segments. I'm halfway through Produce after over an hour. It is mostly "producing" a frame a sec. ONE FRAME!!!! My CPU shows 50% usage, Mem about 40% and GPU at 27%. What kind of super-computer does PD365 Need? My PD 18 hummed right along even when I applied fixes to the video segments. Any way to speed this up or should I just scrap PD 365 and go to something else?

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Mar 12, 2022 23:25

Color grading is a very compute-intensive process and it isn't really comparable to normal producing.

My CPU has roughly double your processing power but it only took about 10 seconds to produce a 10 second clip to 1080/30p with a color preset applied. That's 30 frames/second. Do you have hardware encoding selected on the Produce page?

You may also want to try round-tripping from PD. Load the orignal clip onto PD's timeline then choose Tools | Color Grading by ColorDirector and make the changes there. Exit to return to PD with the changes and see if producing from PD is any faster.

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Rusty Trader

Newbie Joined: Mar 28, 2021 14:20 Messages: 37 Offline

Mar 13, 2022 07:58

Quote Color grading is a very compute-intensive process and it isn't really comparable to normal producing.

My CPU has roughly double your processing power but it only took about 10 seconds to produce a 10 second clip to 1080/30p with a color preset applied. That's 30 frames/second. Do you have hardware encoding selected on the Produce page?

You may also want to try round-tripping from PD. Load the orignal clip onto PD's timeline then choose Tools | Color Grading by ColorDirector and make the changes there. Exit to return to PD with the changes and see if producing from PD is any faster.

Thanks!
I am entering the corrections via PD-CD-PD as you describe. Some of the clips are 4K30 and some are 4K60. Output is 1080P30. I was using hardware encoding and had the NVIDIA option checked. It took almost 5 hours to encode a 12.5 minute video. I ran Hardware Optimization and it selected SVRT. That took less, maybe 5 frames/sec, but was still very slow compared to applying individual changes rather than going to CD and applying a preset. The clips are pieces pre-cut from larger clips. Not sure if that matters. I wonder if CD is applying every possible change to every frame rather than just those selected.