credit roll rendering time

pdmath wrote on 8/5/2002, 8:52 AM

I have an Inspiron 8000 with 800mhz processor.

I made a 6 minute credit roll and rendered as an avi. It took over an hour to render. Just curious...if I had a 2.4 gig processor, would I see a tremendous reduction in rendering times?

I thinking about buying either a Dell 530 workstation or Dell 8200 Dimension desktop. Can anyone tell me any pros or cons about either system and what I should equip them with soundcard and video card wised?

Thanks,
Phil

Comments

SonyDennis wrote on 8/5/2002, 9:45 AM

Yes, since rendering is mostly processor and memory bandwidth.
///d@

Control_Z wrote on 8/5/2002, 11:36 AM

As Dennis pointed out, the increased CPU speed will translate almost 1:1 in shorter rendering times. But I'd hardly call it a 'tremendous' reduction. In your 6 minute case it may take 25 minutes instead of 60.

But Murphy's law dictates your next credits will e.g. be twice as long or have drop shadows and will take an hour anyway.

I know little of Dells but if this machine is primarily DV video editing the audio and video cards are almost completely unimportant. Get the cheapest.

Summersond wrote on 8/5/2002, 11:53 AM

I have the Dell 8200 Dimension and love it. 2.4GHZ, 512mb rdram, 2-80gb hard drives, 64mb video card, good sound card. You won't be sorry!
my 2 cents worth, dave