CoreMelt and Noise Industries FxFactory Pro render speeds

[Liv Khalsa]

I have been using the latest CoreMelt Glows and Blurs and well as the FxFactory Pro plugins. I am wondering if the speeds I am seeing is good considering their complexity, or if maybe I have something set up wrong. I have a 8 core 2.8 Ghz INtel Xeon Mac with 10 GB of ram running Leopard 10.5.8 with a ATI Radeon HD 3870 video card. The Video footage is HDV 1080i60 (1440×1080). The video is on a 6 drive raid that is very fast and rendering is set to a different drive and of course Final Cut is on the System drive (a third drive). If I add 1 of the plugins to a video clip, the line above the clip turns orange and playback becomes somewhat jumpy. If I render a 1.5 minute clip, it takes about 4 minutes. I would appreciate anyones insight into if this is what others are seeing or if I have something really slowing things down. Many thanks for your help and best.

[Michael Gissing]

Are you rendering in HDV or have you set the render to ProRes in the sequence render tab? It sounds about right for HDV and it should be a bit faster going to ProRes. An Orange line suggests some heavy rendering required so slower than real time is to be expected.

[Liv Khalsa]

Thanks for your input. I am not rendering to ProRez. The renders are the same as the source HDV 1080i60 (1440×1080). If I export the 1.5 minute clip it takes about 4 minutes as well. If someone who uses these plugins could see what speed they are seeing it would be of interest. I was hoping it could be speeded up but I may be dreaming.

Best

[Jeremy Garchow]

Why renders to a third drive?

There’s a noise industries forum as well.

[Liv Khalsa]

Its faster to render to a different drive other than the system drive or where the original video files reside hence having a third drive. If you mean Creative Cow has a Noise Industries forum they do and thanks for the information. I posted my question there. Noise Industries does not have their own forum on their site that I can find though. Best

[Tim Wilson]

Noise doesn’t have a forum on their website BECAUSE they have a forum here. This is true for many, many manufacturers who prefer to offer their direct support at the COW.

You can also check the Core Melt forum, who also provide direct support in the COW.

Please be aware that, as this is a Sunday, and this is a worldwide community, some of the people who work at those companies are asleep right now!

You’re looking in the right place.

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Tim

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Liv Khalsa] “Its faster to render to a different drive other than the system drive or where the original video files reside hence having a third drive. “

But if it’s a slow drive, your renders will be more slow. I’d render to the fastest drive you have.

Jeremy

[Liv Khalsa]

I have no slow drives. All my drives are the same exact speed except for my raid which is only faster for playback – not recording.

The length of time that the rendering is taking has very little to do with drive speed. I has to do with the plugins taking time to do what they do. With the same video clip with the plugin off the rendering takes about 4 times less time.