Rendering Time Chart?

wayoutwest wrote on 9/4/2003, 11:48 PM

Does anyone know of, or have a formula to determine rendering times?
I have a 9 minute movie with audio that I am trying to render for a friend
of mine's baby party and I wanted to put it on a DVD for the party.

I am running an aged old P3 400, w/ 256ram (not sure if thats enough info)

thanks

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/4/2003, 11:59 PM

There isn't really a "chart" because it depends on processor, other programs running, origional footage source format, effects, etc. But, just from looking at your maching, you're probely look at an all nighter, at least.
My p3-667 could do about 25 minutes in a day and 1/2, so you're in for a REAL long render time. Sorry to tell ya.

AnotherMovieMaker wrote on 9/5/2003, 7:58 AM

I agree with Friar that there isn't a chart for rendering because of the processor, etc.

I have a P4 1.8G w/ 512M RAM PC and from what I've experienced, it takes about 2 minutes to render for every minute of video.

I video our church service every Sunday. While editing, I'll add a few text overlays, a few transitions, etc., so the production is nothing fancy or mind boggling. The final production is roughly an hour long. Every time I render to MPEG-2 for DVDA, it always takes approximately 2 hours.

One thing I do is that I don't have any other programs running while the rendering is going on. Sometimes I even reboot the PC before rendering just to make sure nothing is running. I'm not saying this is the way it should be done, it's just the way I prefer. Don't know if this has anything to do with being able to have render times basically in a 2 to 1 ratio.

wayoutwest wrote on 10/4/2003, 2:42 PM

Thanks! I've since commisioned someone to rebuild me a system.

thanks!

Chanimal wrote on 10/5/2003, 5:40 PM

It also depends on how many layers you are rendering. If I render an imported AVI file with straight cuts and some basic titling, I can sometimes get render times that are shorter than viewing times (i.e., 8 minutes of video takes 7 minutes to render).

However, recently I created an 8 minute corporate video that had 11 video layers (importing AVI, bmp, quicktime, mpeg, etc.), and 7 audio layers, with special effects, color processing, masks, chromakey, and crossfades all over the place that took 9 hours to render (on an AMD 2100 processor).

You will just have to learn by timing similar projects on the same machine.

Regardless, it's time for you to upgrade.