Adding a lower third bug almost quadrupled my render time?

[David Roth weiss]

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They drink way too much coffee up there.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Ken Jones]

Wow! That is a really long render time. What computer are you using?
If you have a Mac Pro you can significantly decrease your render times. Check this out:
https://www.slccut.com/Apple-Compressor-Tutorials/enable-multiple-core-processing-in-apple-compressor.html

[Anthony Popolo]

Interesting. Thanks. Alas, I have a Mac G5 with dual 2.5G PowerPC. I see I got my G5 just a little too early and missed the boat on a bunch of Intel based things. Ah, but Christmas is coming! (okay maybe 2010).
Thanks to some helpful folks here, I realized the major sources of my problem were my oversized logo (requiring constant resizing) and I was doing a double pass VBR encoding. I also had a coupla FCP filters in play as well. I was compressing the 720 HD down to SD for DVD.
Thanks
-A

[Tony Brittan]

Have you tried doing the bug in compressor when you transcode for DVD?

Tony Brittan
Apple Certified Pro – FCP
islandshoreproductions.com

[David Bogie]

q[Tony Brittan] “Have you tried doing the bug in compressor when you transcode for DVD? “

Using the watermark feature in Compressor could be an excellent solution.

bogiesan

[Anthony Popolo]

I didn’t know that option existed. I will look into it. Thanks!

[Anthony Popolo]

Great call! It also reduces my FCP work time. I do these two versions a lot (with and without bug), so now I can just batch the two versions quickly. Thanks!!