Render Test Question?

bigcreek wrote on 12/12/2003, 6:47 PM

OK, I downloaded the Render Test from the Sundance site, and got a render time of 2:03 (elapsed time in dialog box). Did "render as" from file menu, saved as windows avi. This appears to be very good, and I am suprised. I am running this on a Dell Latitude D600 w/Vegas 4e, 1gig of memory. 1.7 centrino. I really didn't expect this good a time. Am I doing something wrong?

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bigcreek wrote on 12/13/2003, 2:26 PM

Any thoughts?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/13/2003, 2:41 PM

Did you render it in the BEST video quality setting?

Others (more qualified than I am) have suggested the centrino is actually considered equivalent (for this sort of test) as maybe a 2.4Ghz system. Not sure I fully understand why.... but there you go... the numbers speak for themselves.

-Liam

bigcreek wrote on 12/13/2003, 5:36 PM

I just took the defaults, but I went back and checked, and it is set for best quality. I thought I saw a thread a while back - maybe from spot - that said "you wouldn't be happy" with a laptop (centrino). I assumed that related to rendering. Maybe it's something else.

bigcreek wrote on 12/19/2003, 6:12 PM

Thoughts on the Centrino?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/19/2003, 6:19 PM

click "search"... type "centrino" ... click "Perform search"..... read.

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/19/2003, 10:36 PM

I'm certainly not a fan of the Centrino, because of the throughput/instruction speed. But, it does have a better battery life. I'm about to receive a Centrino machine for a review, I'll run it through the paces and post if you are really interested. Machine arrives on Tuesday...

bigcreek wrote on 12/20/2003, 2:48 PM

I'd like to hear what you think. I'm trying to decide whether to keep this laptop as a secondary editing machine, or "upgrade" to a non-centrino laptop.

beerandchips wrote on 12/21/2003, 2:18 PM

What's the problem dude? It gets good render times. Keep it. If you need another one. Get another one.