Rendering Taking WAY to long!!

reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 3:46 PM
After months of filming my latest movie i've finally finished it and edited it as well, when i go to render, it says it will take 1hour then i leave it, come back it says 23 hours!!(This is only half of my movie too!) I've left it on for like 3 days straight and it won't finish!! I've tried customizing it and changing everything. My movie is only 15 minutes long.

heeelp!

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RedEyeRob wrote on 5/21/2003, 4:32 PM
Try copying everything into a new project. Sometimes a project file can get corrupted and cause unusualy behavior.
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:06 PM
Didn't work, thanks anyway.

Jsnkc wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:15 PM
How many Transitions, color corrections effects and stuff are you using?? Also how fast is your system?? A slow system, and a lot of transitions, effects and things like that can take a very, VERY long time to render.
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:26 PM
I've got a pretty fast computer - 1.8ghz, 512MB ram. Though i am using quite a lot of effects, well, a lot of effects. No or not many transistions
aussiemick wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:34 PM
Just check you do not have motion blur on as this will bog down the render considerably. Also just do a quick render of a title or checkerboard for a couple of minutes and see if it goes through quickly, that will check your system out.
Paul_Holmes wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:37 PM
Also, if you're using the median filter it will take an hour to render a minute.
DDogg wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:40 PM
Try Edit>Switches>disable resample just for curiousity. Also, did you pick good or best in render?
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 5:56 PM
Paul: I'm using the median filter heaps in my movie!
DDog: I'm using good. And resample doesn't come as a option.
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 6:03 PM
The movie is based around a person on drugs so i need a lot of warped effects, the median filter is used a lot, should i change that?
BillyBoy wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:10 PM
You slow rendering is due to the median filter. Once and ONLY once I used it. Don't recall the exact time but rought 40 hours to render a 20-30 minute video to MPEG-2 on a PC roughtly the same speed as yours.

Say exactly what you're trying to do with the filter and you'll probably gets a lot of suggestions.
mikkie wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:42 PM
Sounds like the sort of thing that might render faster in V/Dub - 4c's faster, but I know some of the common stuff I do takes 1/3 as long or less.
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 10:22 PM
BillyBoy: I'm trying to get a drug effect. Like blury, trippy and stuff. Not anything like to-to out of it just effects in the median filter give off a nice touch with "round max".
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 10:24 PM
The effects in "min and max" using those effects will it slow the rendering process down like the median effects?
rextilleon wrote on 5/21/2003, 10:42 PM
ree, relax and let it render---so it takes two days----
reece.b wrote on 5/21/2003, 11:11 PM
I have taken all my effects out, sadly, it is now rendering a hell of a lot faster thanks for everyones help :) -reece
SonyEPM wrote on 5/22/2003, 8:41 AM
The median filter, along with motion blur & supersampling, are the most processor intensive native fx...using them always results in long render times. If render time is more critical than a given look, you might try a filter other than median- Quick, Radial, Gaussian (in that order, fast to slow) might get you an acceptable look with lower render times.