Over 8 hours to render 1.2 hour project!!

blk_diesel wrote on 11/4/2006, 9:28 AM

It actually topped out at 14 hours estimate. Only a couple of fades and 1-2 transitions. What in the world is going on? I captured the footage in DV mode from a FX1, so I used the NTSC dvdA widescreen template. This is the second project I used V7 to do, the last time the render was only 2.5 hours.

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blk_diesel wrote on 11/13/2006, 3:44 PM

"Was the actual render time 14 hrs?"

Yes it was. I checked and rechecked everything, I even started a clean project, dropped the video files on the timeline and set the render properties based on a bitrate calculator and without any editing, it estimated 14 hours. I'm going to recheck all my camera settings and make sure I'm not overlooking anything.

dornier wrote on 11/19/2006, 10:21 AM

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Reply by: Tim L
Date: 11/4/2006 7:51:31 PM

Another "long render" thing I've read about is accidentally having compositing mode set to 3d instead of the normal "Source Alpha". Check the compositing mode on all your video tracks.
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Hey, that was probably me back in June, right? Thanks to John M for getting me through that one. I just replicated that one vid track without even noticing it.

VideoSlayer wrote on 11/19/2006, 10:55 AM

" I just replicated that one vid track without even noticing it. "

Replicated during rendering or before rendering?
( I'm having a problem with my rendering duplicating rendered file, when rendering completes).
Is there anyway I could get you to throw a link up to the thread your talking about ( or even the title of the thread)?

dornier wrote on 11/19/2006, 11:02 AM

What I meant was I kept creating a new video track for more elements, all the while not noticing that on each new track I had 3D alpha selected, instead of source alpha. 11 out of 12 layers were trying to be read as 3D.