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iMovie very slow to render

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AndyThomsen

macrumors newbie
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Mar 24, 2013
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Hi all,

I have been using iMovie for a while now, while it took a little while to export (render) in the past, now a 3minute clip takes an hour and a 6minute clip takes 2 hours! I thought it should be 1.5 - 2x longer not 20x longer.....

All other operations seem as fast as usual even in iMovie.

Is there some sort of cache i need to empty?
My CPU is running 2 cores at 80-90% and 2 cores at 30%

iMac 3.06Ghz i3
16Gb Ram
ATI Radeon HD 4670
OSX 10.6.8

iMovie 11 - 9.0.4 (1634)

500Gb HD - 240Gb free

I have repaired disk permissions, could this have changed something?

Please help, I'd hate to render a 20 minute video right now.

Andy.
 
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daybreak

macrumors 6502a
Sep 4, 2009
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Are you using the new version of iMovie. When they upgraded to Maverick they introduced a new version of iMovie.
Are you using a external hard drive for your video clips?
 
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AndyThomsen

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 24, 2013
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Hi,

I use internal HD only, external is for back-up only.
My version of iMovie has no new updates, I'm running iMovie 11 - 9.0.4 (1634) as stated in my original question.
 
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daybreak

macrumors 6502a
Sep 4, 2009
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Sorry Andy, did not look at your thread correctly. There are two operating version of iMovie running on 10.9.2. Did you by any change load the new free version unto your Mac?
 
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AndyThomsen

macrumors newbie
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Mar 24, 2013
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daybreak, you are confusing me. It's imovie 9.0.4 and OSX 10.6.8

Rendering a 1.18 minute video now and it's taking 16-17 minutes, very slow.
 
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AndyThomsen

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 24, 2013
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Help

Can no one help me or offer a solution/something to try?

3 minute video taking 50 minutes to render.
 
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AlainaR

macrumors newbie
Jun 10, 2014
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Your export time might have something to do with the size of the source footage that iMovie is trying to render out. What codec are your source files in? A tool that might help is Edit Ready, made by my company Divergent Media. A workflow that seems to speed up the process is to transcode your files before you bring them into iMovie, which has been known to help reduce the time that iMovie has to take exporting, because it doesn't have to transcode AND export at the same time. Edit Ready can quickly and easily transcode your source files into a native editing codec for iMovie. The codec that I use is ProRes 422LT, it preserves image quality without outputting massive file sizes. You can test this workflow by downloading a free trial of Edit Ready at http://www.divergentmedia.com/editready

Hope this helps, let me know if it works. :apple:
 
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