Film Look plug and rendering time

donp wrote on 5/2/2004, 9:35 AM
Boy oh boy I need to upgrade my PC. The render of a project that's 1.5 hours long will take 135 hours with PCE and even longer with Vegas and the Red Giant Movie Look plugin active in the timeline.

I am currently using a 266 FSB mobo, 1.5 Ghz Athon XP and 1 Gig ddr.

Would it be helpful here to move up to say, 532 FSB with 2.8 Ghz Dual Xenon processors. I really like what the movie Look filters do to old VHS stuff. I got to improve the render time to use it.

Comments

filmy wrote on 5/2/2004, 4:10 PM
Magic Bullet is a render hog. This is normal - upgrading will help some but keep in mind - it is a render hog no matter what.

I started using DFT "Digital FIlm Lab" because it renders so much faster and the looks are as good. Downisde is that it is not available for Vegas. A workaround is to use Boris RedGL and plug the AEX into that...but that is a very expensive workaround.

But back to MB - even they say "Dual-processor recommended" for the specs and when version 1.5 came out this is the render speed press - Our own tests show up to 3.8x faster processing compared to version 1.1 (on a dual-processor Pentium 4 Xeon)—your mileage may vary
donp wrote on 5/2/2004, 5:16 PM
Thanks filmy, I look this further.
donp wrote on 5/2/2004, 7:30 PM
To any one that has a dual processor mobo (Xenon). If you have used Magic Bullett how much have your render times been reduced?
BJ_M wrote on 5/3/2004, 5:00 PM
none - unless you use network rendering to use both proccessors ..

speed with MB+vegas is about the same as MB 1.1+AE (it seems)

though the biggest handicap is that vegas+MB is limited to 1024x1024
Jessariah67 wrote on 5/3/2004, 5:26 PM
I have to admit, I really like the MB looks provided with V5, and would probably spring the $200 for the full version coming out in May, but you REALLY have to love it to use it. A 7 minute video that had MB on about half of the video took 4 hours to render. Ouch...
donp wrote on 5/3/2004, 6:49 PM
Network rendering Hmmmm just have one PC to do everything on. I was hopeing dual 2.8 Xenon's with 2 gig PC2100 (266) memory woul be some kind of rendering time decrease.

I just did a test using Spots Render test, first with Film Look plugin on lower most track rendered to m2v and mpg, 14 minutes and 5 seconds

With the film look plugin removed everything else the same, 5 minutes and 39 seconds.
donp wrote on 5/4/2004, 6:39 AM
I read in another older post that you can use the nework render between two processors on the same mobo if you have enough memory (ram). I'm thinking very hard on getting an Asus dual Xenon 533 FSB motherboard. I will have 2 gig of 266 DDR, is that enough to do the network render to perhaps speed up the Magic Bullett filter?
SonyPJM wrote on 5/4/2004, 8:51 AM
Should be pleanty.