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Liam_Vegas wrote on 10/18/2004, 10:42 PM
By the way "rendering" is not the same as "printing to DV (tape)"

In the end... you can only print-to-tape video frames that are in native (raw) DV format. If your video needs to be rendered (like you added any FX to any part of the video - e.g. transitions) then those parts will need to be rendered before you can print-to-tape. If your project contains mostly unaltered DV video (no FX's or other stuff overlayed - like titles) then doing a print-to-tape from the timeline will likely be the fasted way to get your project to tape.

If most of your timeline requires rendering - then I would recommend rendering the entire timeline to DV AVI format and then doing a print-to-tape of that using the capture utility.

As for a "faster method of rendering" - get a faster CPU and/or setup to do network rendering using multiple computers (which MIGHT speed things up).

[EDIT] I see your question here is really related to a post you made here. It certainly would have been helpful if you had made a reference to that in your post above as that definitely changes your answer.

Your question really does not have anything to do with printing to tape does it? It is really just about how to speed up your rendering of this complicated project you have.

The answer is - that doing a print-to-tape (to a DV device as you say) will not make any difference to the rendering time. In your case I would have to guess (because you didn't tell us) that all these 600 events on the timeline are not actually DV video at all right? Are they still images or something like that? If so.,.. that is what is taking the time... and especially if those stills are high resolution.
jetdv wrote on 10/19/2004, 6:47 AM
Printing to tape will, generally, be faster than rendering to a new AVI. The only reason for this is that when rendering to a new AVI, all unchanged sections are copied on the hard drive to the new file (which takes time) and then that file must be placed on a timeline for printing (which takes more of your time). With PTT, only the sections that need rendering will be created and all unchanged sections will simply remain untouched before sending the output to tape.

Of course, if EVERY frame must be rendered, there should be no difference in time (or at least minimal).