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6h to render 40 mins of 1080p on MBP 2.6Ghz ?
I shot some 1080p24 video, 41 mins to be precise. I ingested it into ProRes422 (std not HQ). When it came time to do some simple color correction; I added a simple “Color Correction” filter from FCP I was surprised to see that it’d take 5 hours or so to render the footage (the final render too 6 hours)! Does this seem about right. I’m running a MBP 2.6 Ghz, SL, 6gigs of ram and a speedy FW800 / 7200rmp drive. (Yeah, yeah I need a bloody 12 core tower but the lolly is a little tight)
This was my first foray into the 1080 world and 1080p24 was the only common format between my HMC40 and 7D. Suppose I’m beginning to realize how many extra pixels my poor laptop has to deal with!! Better to down res the footage into 720p in future as the shoot was a simple talk my buddy was giving at a conference and it’s just going out to the web. I also choose 24p to get a little extra light, you know how the HMC40 is and the room was a typical poorly lit conference room. Oh well…… next time I’ll know better right.
Cheers
Richard
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Yes, that sounds normal. My MacBook Pro took 17 hours to render a 2 hr. program that was shot and edited in XDCAM EX. Renders seem to always take a long time. It works best to let it run overnight if you can.
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Are your sequence settings ProRes 422 too? They match your footage exactly? And ONLY the Color Corrector plugin? No scaling, keyframed movement? Stills in the project? Graphics with motion backgrounds or drop shadows? Do you have heavy graphics or titles in the beginning, but then nothing later? Because the estimates are based on how long it takes to do things while it is doing them. If later you don’t have graphic, then the render will go faster and the estimate will drop.
[Richard Jacana] “a speedy FW800 / 7200rmp drive.”
Hardly speedy. That’s second to the bottom of the barrel speed wise.
Shane
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Too low performance.
The HD is not that fast, as Shane says, but should be enough for only one Prores stream.
Make a bit of maintenance (Permissions, DiskWarrior) that always helps on those cases.
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Look, it’s faster than my 5200 rpm, 2.5 inch FW800 drive, OK!
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