• Maxon Cinema 4D

  4K vs 1080P Render Times

  Posted by James Huenergardt on November 17, 2015 at 5:02 am

  I’m wondering if the same scene rendered 4K vs 1080P would take 4x longer to render, or would it depend what’s going on.

  I’m going to be using dynamics, X-Particles, Turbulence FD, etc. in the scenes.

  Just trying to get a handle on if I need to be prepared for 4x longer render times.

  Thanks,

  Jim

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  Brian Jones replied 10 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brian Jones

  November 17, 2015 at 3:17 pm

  yeah, get used to the render times 4k is twice the size of 1080 (slightly larger if DCI 4K is what you are doing – 4096 wide rather than 3840) and it’s twice the height so 2×2 it’s 4X as many pixels to render – that’s actual render time – preparation time (the dynamics, X-Particles, Turbulence FD, etc) should remain the same.

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