How long should it take to render a 1 hr vid?

KDEuler wrote on 9/4/2005, 10:50 PM

I'm rendering avi files from a 1 hour digital8 tape. Looks like the estimated time to render the whole thing is at least 6 hours. Does this sound about right?

I'm started the rendering process via the "Make Movie" wizard option. I'm running this on a 2.8 GH XP Home edition PC.

Thanks!

-Kurt

Comments

jimmyz wrote on 9/4/2005, 11:33 PM

With effects it could take that long.
In my experience it always takes less than the initial estimate.

Chienworks wrote on 9/5/2005, 5:18 AM

I would expect it to take somewhere between 5 minutes and 5 days. Many factors can affect rendering time:

- effects, titles, transitions, color correction, compositing
- speed changes
- rendering format
- pan/crop or track motion
- type of hard drive connection, choice of drive to render to
- other programs running simultaneously

and lots of other factors as well. Unless we know more specifics about your project it is almost impossible for us to judge your rendering time. At a rough guess, if you are rendering to a DVD MPEG-2 format with two-pass rendering and a few transitions and titles thrown in, 6 hours sounds very reasonable. If you have some color correction or other effects added to large sections of the project, 6 hours sounds amazlingly fantastically short! If you are rendering to a DV .avi file and don't have any effects or other things added, 6 hours is a sick turtle crawling through molasses in january.