Faster Render

[Mark Maness]

Do you Unlimited RT turned on?

This will give you better previews without all of the rendering. That is, if all of your footage is of the same codec as your Easy Setup.

Otherwise, the only way to get faster renders is to purchase a new Mac with fastest chip you can afford.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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[Dan Archer]

Thanks Wayne. I was asked by the higher ups if I could “render farm” It took me ten minutes to explain that to them. Thanks for the info

A cut is a cut & a dissolve is a disolve, and not just anybody with a system is a pro.

[David Roth weiss]

Dan,

For the most part your choices are either use higher octane hardware, or lower octane video.

Which renders are giving you particular pains? If its H.264, they can be particularly painful.

Just for the record, though I’m not an expert on Mac render farms, it can be done with Compressor, but I have a suspicion that its not as easy or as beneficial as it sounds. In the PC world, render farms always require that you’re rendering sequential files, such as TGAs, as there is no way that multiple machines would be able to piece together a single large file being rendered across several machines.

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[Andy Shnikes]

whats the advantage of unlimited rt vs safe rt? whats the difference?

[Dan Archer]

No FIle in particular. I just feel the need for speed…… Oh God I just quoted Top Gun , Shoot Me!!!

Heres a thought would adding more RAM help???

A cut is a cut & a dissolve is a disolve, and not just anybody with a system is a pro.

[Mark Maness]

Well…

Unlimited RT give you the option of viewing your footage in realtime with effects applied as much as the computer can view. It does this by reducing the resolution of your footage to a level that can be played back in realtime.

This ONLY affects the playback of your sequence, not the rendered output that you may need when outputting. This saves lots of time when editing because you don’t have to render every time you want to see something in your sequence.

You can choose you settings as you wish. SafeRT causes you to render anytime an effect is applied.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Jeff Carpenter]

Safe real-time means you’re seeing high quality video at the correct frame rate. If the machine can’t show you that it shows you nothing at all until you render.

Unlimited real-time means the machine will play your video no matter what. It may have to lower the quality of the image and it may have to lower the frame rate, but it will get the job done.

This is useful for edting because it’s more useful to see an effect at half-rez than it is to see nothing at all. If you want to you can always render it after that. Bur for many effects (dissolves, wipes, etc.) a low-rez version is good enough and you can move on. Just render everything at the end.

Final Cut lets you pick what’s more important to you. So for example, I have mine set to always maintain the frame-rate, but I told it to lower the quality as much as it wants to. Other people may want full quality but want it to drop frames to keep up. Or you could let it drop both and then neither one would be affected as much.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dan Archer] “Oh God I just quoted Top Gun , Shoot Me!!! “

Sounds like you are taking a ride into the danger zone, my friend.

[Michael Bloodgood]

What kind of system do have? And what kind of stuff are you dealing with?

As far as the render farm goes you have two options: Setting up a grid or setting up an HPC. A grid is user friendly and is GUI based but it works out about as good as Anna Kournikova: Looks good but doesn’t play very well. Anyone who has used qmaster knows what I am talking about. Setting up an HPC requires a MS in computer science and a full time person to run it, needless to say not worth it for only two systems.

[Dan Archer]

[Jeremy] Sounds like you are taking a ride into the danger zone, my friend.

I knew this would happen. Go ahead let me have it.

A cut is a cut & a dissolve is a disolve, and not just anybody with a system is a pro.