Rendering

gford wrote on 1/27/2003, 1:04 PM
I am a complete novice to most things computer related so if you give advice please make it idiot-proof! I have made a film that is 45 min long and am trying to render the file to an .avi. The file size is 24gb to render (I added 4 songs, added some text and a few transitions). First is it normal for a video this long to be that large of a file? Second it will take almost eight hours to render the file. Does this sound correct or am I doing something wrong?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/27/2003, 1:44 PM
What template are you using when you render to AVI? Are you making any custom changes to that template? If you render to DV AVI then your output file should be about 225MB per minute, or about 10GB total. Since your file is coming out larger than this you're probably using uncompressed AVI with some parameters changed. What do you intend to do with this rendered file? If you will be printing it to tape through the firewire port, then DV AVI is the template you must use.

Depending on any effects, crossfades, titling, the format of the video sources, speed of your computer, etc., 8 hours is not unreasonable.
gford wrote on 1/27/2003, 1:53 PM
I am printing to DV tape but did not change any other parameters.
Klavisha wrote on 1/27/2003, 8:19 PM
I'll agree with Chienworks that 8 hours sounds right for your video; I did a 52-minute one recently that was approximately 11.5 GB and took about 8.5 hrs to render. For printing to tape render as DV AVI, NTSC or PAL DV.
the_ripper wrote on 1/27/2003, 9:59 PM
I render 38 min mpeg2's from 8 gig avi files in about 5 hrs.....In my case I always converted to AVI using canopus advc-100. Maybe it takes longer to render the higher avi from scratch. I will say I pull DVD's in at 1x, meaning in the actual time of the movie, I get back the AVI 1 :1. -The Ripper
laz1 wrote on 1/28/2003, 2:43 AM
I usually render 45 mins PAL DV avi in about 3 hrs. Mind you I've got every b/g off in b/g except syst tray and explorer. You can speed things up with cache managers but be careful and use one that can return to defaults if necessary.
Klavisha wrote on 1/28/2003, 2:45 PM
Among other things it will make a big difference depending on what effects you have added to your original footage - the more work your computer has to do, the longer your render will take. My 52-min one, for example, had color and/or brightness adjusts in virtually every frame, which may have led to the 8.5 hr render time.