Write-On Effect is Extremely Slow with Media Pending

Hey PilotMediaNews25

I find changing Brush Spacing to 0.02-0.07 (it changes depending on the distance between the keyframes) and Stroke length to 10.0 works quite nicely.

Its mainly the Stroke length that need changing to 10

I dont have a hulk like computer but it works quite nicely for me.

It also take like 2 sec to render as well but i am using Premiere Pro CC 2018.

Hope this helps

I'm having the same problem. I have a GTX 980 Ti 6GB and 64 GB ram with PCI-E SSD drives and this effect is a snail. I wanted to use this youtube tutorial also. No clue why this effect is so slow.

Update on this... I experimented a bit today and discovered that the more the distance between the Brush Spacing, the more "fluid" the movement when changing the X or Y position from the first set keyframe to its next position. I find that it's pretty responsive all the way down to around 0.175. Anything less than that and everything moves progressively slower as the spacing gets smaller. This is from the time I grab either the X or Y number and drag it to a new position on the opposite side of the screen to the time the preview window actually responds to what I'm doing.

0.250 - Super Responsive

0.200 - Super Responsive

0.175 - Super Responsive

0.150 - 1/2 Second Delay

0.125 - 1 Second Delay

0.100 - 2 Second Delay

0.075 - 3 Second Delay

0.050 - 4 Second Delay

0.025 - 6 Second Delay

0.020 - 9 Second Delay

0.010 - 13 Second Delay

0.009 - 17 Second Delay

0.008 - 24 Second Delay

0.007 - 32 Second Delay

0.006 - 1 Min / 3 Second Delay

0.005 - 1 Min / 38 Second Delay

0.004 - 2 Min / 21 Second Delay

0.003 - 3 Min / 16 Second Delay

0.002 - 4 Min / 29 Second Delay

0.001 - 5 Min / 47 Second Delay (sometimes causes the Media Pending screen to appear)

This is simply turning on the Write-On effect and drawing a horizontal line between two keyframes. No other effects used in the sequence.

The times are roughly the same between both Macs I've tried this on, regardless of whether the hardware is "better" or not, i.e. the smaller I go with the Brush Spacing, the longer it takes the transition to appear.

I certainly appreciate the effort anyway. If you read some of the comments under the YouTube video, you'll see other people asking/saying the same thing:

"My version renders so s l o w l y"

"How is your Adobe Premiere Pro running so fast... mine is delayed by like 10 minutes"

"It is seriously taking minutes to even scrub through the animation"

"Looks like everyone here is having some serious lag issues"

It's all or nothing it seems like, i.e. it works perfectly fine for some people while others it's causing serious lag. Here's something else... just for giggles, I installed everything on a Mac5K (Late 2015). I know the specs aren't nearly as good as my Mac Pro but it's a 4GHz Core i7, 16GB RAM, Radeon 4GB.

This other Mac doesn't have a CUDA supported card so I went with the OpenCL choice.

I get the exact same results. The very second I grab the Brush Position (in either X or Y) everything comes to a halt.

It takes nearly five minutes for the very first dot to extend itself in succession across the bottom of my Rectangle, the Program/Preview Monitor changes to "Media Pending", the CPU fan starts roaring like a jet engine, and Premiere itself locks up to where you can't click on anything else until it's finally finished.

If it does manage to come back from Media Pending and everything calms down, even trying to quit Premiere takes several minutes for it to shut down, sometimes resulting in having to do a Force Quit because it's locked up solid. This is the exact same behavior that's going on with the Mac Pro too. Both systems, completely different hardware, are acting identical.

I went through and tried to replicate your issue, and couldn't, so I'm not sure of how to help.

Which is a bit frustrating, as this is the most complete request for help I've ever seen here. And I congratulate you on that! I certainly hope someone else can help with this ... Vidya Sagar​, Richard M Knight​, anybody else ... any ideas?

Neil