Render Times 22hrs for 15 minute sequence?

[Richard Sanchez]

That’s about right. Magic Bullet filters (at least last time I used them) on an Intel Core 2 Duo generally rendered at a rate of an hour per minute of video. I’ve never used the image stabilizer but I would imagine that’s a pretty hefty render too.

To give you an example, grant it, this was on a PC based Core 2 Duo system, rendering out of After Effects as opposed to Final Cut. I render a 45 minute band performance using Magic Bullet’s deartifactor and one of their looks effects. It took about three days.

It sure made the DV footage look killer, but it comes at a cost, being render time.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Pino Catalano]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for uor response.

I have had a look at a few settings and the media & filters that I’m using and it seems that the image stabiliser is seriously slowing things down and that’s an understatement!

As it is a nested sequence I’m rendering I decided to cut all the sequences up into smaller sections, select them and render them individually. This seems to be rendering a lot quicker althought when I get the sequence with the image stabiliser it slows down dramatically (1min takes about 30mins to render).

I also noticed that if I just leave the machine to render, when the screen saver goes on and it sits rendering for a few hours the time just goes up and then starts hangining… I checked my system settings and nothing is set to slepp if left for a while although I am rendering to an external HD and this may be the problem?!

Pino
London, UK