HDV render speed V8... double edge sword!!

blink3times wrote on 9/11/2007, 9:17 PM

The smart render sure does speed things up. When it kicks in you can see the frame counter start to jump by 50's and 100's. But the rendering of the parts to be re compressed (dissolves, transitions... etc) is a HECK of a lot slower than V7!

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bruceo wrote on 9/11/2007, 9:46 PM

I think I am starting to notice this too... I am rendering on a P4 3.2 XP machine 2 hours of HDV footage with maybe 50% at most of the clips with a color corrector filter. Rendering to m2t 60i I am at 12 hrs with 4.5 hours reported as left to go. 8 bit render as well... I don't remember them taking that long, but I'll have to test it on the quad Vista and see.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 9/12/2007, 1:21 AM

Technically, the software cannot smartrender parts of the video, where changes take place.

If you wish to deactivate smartrendering, you find that possibility in the options/preferences.

megabit wrote on 9/12/2007, 1:46 AM

The slowdown is not related to smartrender being on or off; it's attributable to the 32bit video processing. In 8bit, it's in every aspect as fast as it used to be in V7; switch 32bit and my CPU isn't even 40% loaded! Certainly unoptimized code there.