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ronl17462205
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December 17, 2018
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Premiere Pro with After Effects is very slow.

  • December 17, 2018
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Working on a project where i need to remove the grain from my video and there is no option to re-shoot it..  I followed a YouTube video showing how to link the sequence into After Effect to make the changes. How To Remove Noise From Video in After Effects - No Plugins - YouTube.  The only difference is; I right click the clip and choose "Replace with After Effect composition". (How to Clean up Noisy Video in Premiere Pro in 30 Seconds )

My video is 32 minutes in length.  I exported a 20 second portion and it took 45 minutes to render as H.264 - High Bit-rate, default settings.  On medium bit-rate I saved 6 minutes.

My rig is a Lenovo Thinkpad P70

i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz

32 GB RAM

Nividia Quadro M3000M 4GB

Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, and After Effect CC 2019

Everything runs off of an internal SSD

I am using the Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA)

No Proxies

My footage is in AVCHD 1080P PS

Am I doing something wrong based on the advice I searched up?  Is it something the my rig can't handle?  Premiere Pro can't handle?  I'm not quite a novice user of Premiere Pro and this is my first attempt at After Effects.  any push in the right direction is welcomed.

Thanks in advance

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

I wouldn't send that as a comp from PrPro ... I'd recommend opening the file in AfterEffects with nothing else running, and set it to do a de-noise and export that out to an intraframe codec, either ProRes 422, DNxHD/R, or Cineform, then use the digital intermediate for editing in PrPro. And with that older gear with only one drive, it's going to take a while to de-noise. So set it up so it doesn't go to sleep, and let it run. That will take some time.

De-noising that file on my desktop would eat some time ...

Neil

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ronl17462205Author
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December 20, 2018

I did as Neil suggested.  Yes, it took a long time for After Effects to render the video, but once I imported into Premiere Pro it was very snappy.  So thank you for the information.

Did I fix up the grain? ... Marginally.

Am I looking for a better rig? ... Definitely

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
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December 20, 2018

There's always something better out there ... sigh ...

With the media I'm starting to work, the 6-core, 32GB RAM, 1060-6Gb rig I've got isn't quite up to snuff. So I'm looking between Puget Systems & Safeharbor computing for something with significantly better performance without being too incredibly price-painful.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
    Legend
    December 18, 2018

    I wouldn't send that as a comp from PrPro ... I'd recommend opening the file in AfterEffects with nothing else running, and set it to do a de-noise and export that out to an intraframe codec, either ProRes 422, DNxHD/R, or Cineform, then use the digital intermediate for editing in PrPro. And with that older gear with only one drive, it's going to take a while to de-noise. So set it up so it doesn't go to sleep, and let it run. That will take some time.

    De-noising that file on my desktop would eat some time ...

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
      Mo Moolla
      Mo Moolla
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      December 20, 2018

      Agreed +1

      Dynamic linking between apps is not for the faint hearted.

      You need some seriously strong hardware to manage this comfortably

      Mo

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      Furman Pictures, LLC
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      June 26, 2024

      Yah, no. This is an Adobe software bug. I've worked in after effects for decades, always keeping my software current as the bugs come and go, but after the most recent 2024 update, after effects intergration, the AE/Premiere Dynamic link is supper slow. I've found that sometime if I right click on the embedded AE clip in Premiere, and click Edit Original, that that it can wake the link up so it works correctly.

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