Got some wedding footage I need to work on. I remembered the GREAT success I've had with Movie Looks HD on previous footage & thought I'd give it a whirl. I took 6 seconds of the wedding & applied "Warm & Fuzzy" @ 50%. Looked great! A test render of that six seconds took 375 seconds on my AMD 3000. *cough*
Then I fiddled around for ~60 minutes with vegas plugins. I came up with combo of Color Correction & Glow plugs that look virtually identical with one MAJOR exception: render time of 74 seconds!
Here's the video:
http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imagedifferenceqf4.flv
first 6 seconds are original footage. Next six are CC & Glow. Last 6 are ML HD. I have the free version that came with Vegas so no hardware acceleration (that would help a lot).
The entire ceremony is ~26 minutes long. If I applied MLHD to the entire ceremony that would be (est) ~162 hours 30 minutes render time. With the CC+Glow that would be 32 hours.
I could cut my rendering time in ~1/2 by upgrading to the fastest CPU I can get for my MB (AMD X2 4200 939pin @ $100) but that would still put me @ 80 hours with HD ML. I could buy a new video card & the upgrade but I want to make $$ not constantly upgrade.
My point here? Sometimes it pays to put a little extra work in exploring your options instead of doing things the easy way. This time it will cut my render time down to 1/5th, not to mention I can actually preview in the preview window with the CC+Glow.
Then I fiddled around for ~60 minutes with vegas plugins. I came up with combo of Color Correction & Glow plugs that look virtually identical with one MAJOR exception: render time of 74 seconds!
Here's the video:
http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imagedifferenceqf4.flv
first 6 seconds are original footage. Next six are CC & Glow. Last 6 are ML HD. I have the free version that came with Vegas so no hardware acceleration (that would help a lot).
The entire ceremony is ~26 minutes long. If I applied MLHD to the entire ceremony that would be (est) ~162 hours 30 minutes render time. With the CC+Glow that would be 32 hours.
I could cut my rendering time in ~1/2 by upgrading to the fastest CPU I can get for my MB (AMD X2 4200 939pin @ $100) but that would still put me @ 80 hours with HD ML. I could buy a new video card & the upgrade but I want to make $$ not constantly upgrade.
My point here? Sometimes it pays to put a little extra work in exploring your options instead of doing things the easy way. This time it will cut my render time down to 1/5th, not to mention I can actually preview in the preview window with the CC+Glow.