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Avid FX and renders
I am using Avid FX within Media Composer 4.0 on an HP xw8600 with dual quad core 2.83GHz Xeon processors with 4gb of ram. Now I know what you’re thinking, why am I using Avid FX when I could be using After Effects? Well I started with Boris FX years ago and just haven’t made the full switch and it is nice that it’s all integrated into my editing system. I do use After Effects, but not often. I can move a lot faster in Avid FX than I can in After Effects.
However I am curious. Can Avid FX utilize the processor speed my computer has? I am working on this spot, now granted it does have a fog layer generator and electrical arc generators, but the renders are taking forever! The spot is only 15 seconds long and took nearly five hours to render. I’ve done similar work in After Effects and those spots only took about an hour and they were a full thirty seconds. I’m not running anything else during the render either.
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I fully understand stickin’ to what ya know but you can’t work faster if you have to take walks for renders. Learn After Effects. Now is a great time. You’ll soon keep it open in every session and have no need for Avid FX. It was an ok thought by Avid but they never really went anywhere with it.
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The render time does seem pretty excessive.
What else do you have going on in the project?
What graphics card and driver version are you running on the machine?
What’s the OS and the exact version of Avid FX?
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I’m running Avid FX 5.8.0. My graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700, driver version 6.14.11.9038. My OS is Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2.
I’ve uploaded the video for you to see what is actually going on in the spot. There is a fog layer, electrical arcs and motion blur.
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