[Mike Blutstein]

Thank you for all the advice. I have tried multiple suggestions, but to no avail.

I am doing a small project, 1 Adjustment layer, 1 greenscreen shot with some keying and light wrap, a little bit of CC with Curves, a background stock footage layer, 2 lights and 1 camera zooming on slowly.

This entire thing is only 8 seconds long, yet still takes me 30 minutes to render. That is all well and good, but it is only using 5% of my total RAM and like 10% of my cpu. This truly baffles me!

Does this make any sense to you?

PS. Side note. I used BG renderer and it did the entire project in 6 minutes. However it gave me all photoshop files, when I need a loseless video file instead. Is there an easy way to convert all those little pictures to an actual video and look normal?

Thanks!

[Mike Blutstein]

Oh also, I am using a Crucial M4 SSD for my cache/files and rendering.

I also made sure to purge my memory and everything before rendering down!