Ain’t really a debate–rendering video?

[Eric Santiago]

Since 94 I would say a good 10 years for me.
Now it would be more if you include 3D rendering as well as After Effects.

[Bill Davis]

Hardly ever now.
I’ve had background rendering turned off on FCP -X for the last 6 years or so and just let it happen during my Share cycle if it’s needed at all.
Most of my output is direct to Frame.io or Vimeo Pro, so those will handle the versioning transcodes.
Maybe 30% of my work is now in 4K or above and sometimes I set my my Mac to do a large file Upload which involves rendering, but typically I just take a break and get coffee until it finishes.
I’m sure it would be a different story if I was typically doing lots of complex composites or lots of layers, but that’s an exception, not a rule for me.
So really, I haven’t even thought much about rendering for a few years now.

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[Oliver Peters]

No routine renders here with either FCPX or Premiere Pro. The only tool I ever run background renders with are Resolve.

– Oliver

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[Tom Sefton]

Years.

High res red outputs to prores masters are a daily thing. New Mac Pro and increased raw performance can’t come soon enough.

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[Mark Suszko]

“Render, render, render, mor’n I can remember, keep them frames a rendering, RAW files!….”

Watching lack-of-progress-bars is a daily thing for me, and I know that it can waste up to two hours a day of my time.

The part that irks me most is that most of that time is caused by having to compress everything I make to make it squeeze thru the 2-gig limit of our FTP system and get to clients for approvals. I try to beg the IT people to raise the cap, but no luck. Far as I can tell, the limit is arbitrary, makes it all the more maddening.

[Bob Woodhead]

Decades ago (ouch) I had a 3D graphics instructor (post grad for me, ouch again) that said to the class on the first day of class, “Rule Number 1 is Never Ever Watch a Render, go do something else! Do NOT sit and stare at the frames build.” Lived by that rule in all things render-y since. 😀

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[Greg Janza]

[Mark Suszko] “Watching lack-of-progress-bars is a daily thing for me, and I know that it can waste up to two hours a day of my time.”

That’s a lot of wasted time. Are you editing long-form videos? With a newer system, renders shouldn’t be taking up that much time.

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[Shane Ross]

Render time is a healthy “smoke break.” A good reason to get up from your chair and walk about. Maybe hit the loo. Go talk to your post super, chat up another editor. Answer a few questions on a forum. Eat lunch.

Exports I tend to do at night when I’m done. OR… I do them and go get lunch or read. Watch a cat video, wishing I could make a cat video that got more than 9 hits…

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[Neil Goodman]

in this day and age – not sure what you even need to render? A couple audio effects in Avid like D-verb and Time Expansion still require a hard render which happens in the background for me, but other than that – nothing I do requires rendering.

Exporting sure – but has been years since Ive waited for something to render before I could play something back.

[Bill Davis]

Just a general observation.

These days, I try to examine the steps in my most regular workflows as often as I can to ask if the way I’ve been doing them for a long time is STILL the best way to keep doing them.

It usually happens when I watch someone else accomplish the same processes better and faster.

I’ve been caught WAY too many times realizing that not only was there a much more efficient and faster way of doing something, but (annoyingly) I could have been doing that new way for an embarrassingly long time if I’d just been wise enough to look for the improvement.

FWIW.

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