Slow rendering with new effect?

[kdrainstorm]

Hello! I ope someone could help me on this...
I downloaded the Hand Drawn effect from Photoshop.com and when I use it and then render the video previews - it is REALLY slow to render. For example, it took about an hour to render 22 seconds! I've never experienced this with other effects (ones that come with Adobe Premiere or other effects that I've downloaded from Photoshop.com). Is this normal with this particular effect? Any info on why it does this, possible ways to fix this, etc. would be appreciated - Thanks!

KD

[Chuck Engels]

I have not used this particular effect KD but some effects do take a very long time to render.
If you ever get the opportunity to learn and use After Effects you will see what long rendering is really like. My most recent project was a 3 minute video with effects that took almost 12 hours to render.

When you add effects the program has to process them for each video frame, that's 25 or 30 frames per second, so a 22 second video is between 550 and 660 frames. The more advanced the effect the longer it will take. An hour to render 22 seconds is not unreasonable depending on the effect.

Now after saying all that maybe someone else has used the effect and knows if it is very intensive like you are experiencing. If it is not an effect that normally takes that long to render then there could be a problem, but I tend to think that it is probably normal.

[Steve Grisetti]

Also, what type of video are you applying the effect to? What type of camcorder did it come from?

Naturally, AVCHD video is going to take significantly longer than video from a miniDV camcorder. And photos, if they're not sized to no larger than 1000x750 pixels in size, can really slow down the program's performance.

[kdrainstorm]

I'm using this effect on photos and avi video files (trying to create a comic-book kind of look) so it looks like I will need to learn to be patient! LOL!
Thanks, Chuck and Steve for the quick replies - you guys are great!

KD