Should be no more than 5 minutes on a modern pc for h.264 or maybe close to being forever for h.265 encoding on a pc without the necessary hardware gpu encoder.

Quote I am trying to export/render a rough draft of a video but I find the render stats confusing. I started and aborted twice because it was taking a long time. Roughly how long should it take to render a five minute mpeg-4 at 1920x1080 30fps?

With the signature PC and the previous one with only 8 cores, simple editing takes about the same time as the video in the timeline, I always export in fullhd 60p.
Editing with many effects-filled beans can double the time or more.
If the HA option is available, it can speed up the producer time by about 50% in MPEG5 on Win 11Pro.

Quote I am trying to export/render a rough draft of a video but I find the render stats confusing. I started and aborted twice because it was taking a long time. Roughly how long should it take to render a five minute mpeg-4 at 1920x1080 30fps?

Hi,

Apart from the capabilities, spec and configuration of your system, which will have a significant bearing on your export times, the content of your timeline and the edits you have applied may be the most critical factor.

For example:
I took the mountainbiker sample clip, duplicated multiple copies to produce a 5min timeline video, and produced it to H264 1920x1080 16Mbps - a standard profile. Render time 31 secs.

I then applied some color adjustments - saturation, exposure, and sharpness - to the timeline. Produced to the same profile. Render time 1:22.

I then applied a box cross transition to all clips in the the timeline, Same profile. Render time 1:54.

I took the original 5 min produced video (no adjustments or transitions) and re-rendered it using SVRT. Same profile. Render time 20secs,

I then applied AI style painting effect to the same 5 min video. Same profile, Render time 11:35.

So, although this is just a quick and dirty example of how timeline content and edits, on the same system, influence render times, it does serve to illustrate the problem of "comparative render times", when trying to troubleshoot performance issues.

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Thanks for the replies. Before one exports, do you have to mark the end of the video somehow, or does the program know that the end of the last scene is in fact the ending?