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Chienworks wrote on 1/30/2005, 3:41 PM
Drive fragmentation has almost no effect on rendering speed. What can slow it down is the number of effects, filters, transitions, titles, overlays, etc. you've used. Adding just guassian blur can slow a render from 1 hour to 20 hours.

If you want to make sure your computer hardware isn't causing any of the slowness, drop a DV .avi file onto the timeline without adding any effects and render it to a new DV .avi file. This should go at least 3 or 4 times faster than real time. If that works then you know it's something you're doing by adding extra effects and such that is slowing it down.
scifly2 wrote on 1/30/2005, 10:35 PM
Hard drives are getting cheap. Put another in if you dont already have a 2nd drive. Render from one drive to another. Just another partition doesnt count, needs to be a seperate physical drive.
Also might try the free download" END IT ALL". to stop other background operations. Use DMA on hard drives.
gogiants wrote on 1/30/2005, 11:11 PM
It goes without saying (!) but Chienworks is right on this one. I'd look first at what type of rendering you're doing before thinking about adding disk drive(s).

Tell us more about the hour-long video you are rendering. What format are you rendering to? What format are your source files? What percent of the hour long video have some sort of effects applied to them? What sort of effects are you using?

Also, keep in mind that any text at all, moving or otherwise, counts as "effects" since the computer has to generate them.
IanG wrote on 1/31/2005, 12:46 AM
Another thing that can slow the rendering is adjusting transparency. It's been suggested a few times in this forum that clips can be put on the overlay tracks and the transparency adjusted on the unwanted sections. That's fine during the editing, but it slows the rendering down a lot. If you've got any clips at 100% transparency they should be deleted.

Ian G.

Sineis wrote on 1/31/2005, 11:25 AM
Thanks guys for the feedback

Source File: 720 x480 wmv file (captured using a Sony DV)
Export Format: mpg2
% of Effects in the Video: I would say from 35-45 % including Texts, FX effects, transicions, etc.

I have two hard drive both are maxtor 7200 rpm
1- 80 GB
2- 160 GB
and I only use my 160 GB for Video editing and work I do. The 80 GB is for Windows Files and Programs Installed. Both are NTS.
I also use Norton System Work 2004 and Norton Firewall 2004 but I don't know if that has to do with rendering videos.
I think somebody mentioned a program who kill what is running on the background so the rendering proccess could be faster.

Fact: The rendering took 36 hours and 45 mins to finish an 1 hour 22 mins video.
Extra: I am rendering a video for my DVD background and It took 30 mins for a 7 mins video and this one was a plain video no effects.
What do you guys think?
Once again, Thanks.
Chienworks wrote on 1/31/2005, 4:51 PM
Curious.

Why is your source file WMV? If you're capturing from a DV camcorder i would suggest leaving the source files as DV AVI files. You'll get much faster response while working in Vegas, shorter rendering times, and higher quality output.