Slow rendering

UKAndrewC wrote on 5/8/2007, 4:49 PM
I have just tried the rendering speed test posted in an earlier topic.

It took 12 minutes when it should have been more like 15-20 seconds.

I would be grateful if anyone can give me a clue as to why that could be.

I have a P4 3.2Ghz with 1Gb DDR RAM and 7200 disc drives. My Vegas temp folder is on a different drive to the rendered file.

Nothing else appears to be slow on the PC, including other rendering software, just Vegas.

Thanks

Andrew

Thanks

Andrew

Comments

blink3times wrote on 5/8/2007, 5:13 PM
12 minutes is a little long... but there is NO WAY you will do this render test in 15 or 20 seconds with a P4.

Don't forget that this is not actually video that is being rendered. It's media that's being GENERATED (created from scratch) by vegas, so quite naturally it will be a bit slower than rendering an actual video.
John_Cline wrote on 5/8/2007, 5:29 PM
Andrew,

I doubt anybody's machine is going to do the new rendertest-hdv.veg file in 15-20 seconds, not anytime soon anyway. Your 12 minutes on a 3.2Ghz P4 sounds about right.

On my 3.2Ghz laptop with 1 gig of RAM, it did the original rendertest.veg in 85 seconds, it rendered the new, rendertest-hdv.veg in exactly 17 minutes.
rs170a wrote on 5/8/2007, 5:33 PM
Your machine's render time was comparable to other systems around your CPU's speed.
BTW, The 14 sec. render John was referring to in that thread was for the original render test which was DV, not HDV.

Mike
UKAndrewC wrote on 5/8/2007, 5:42 PM
Hello All

Thanks for the responses.

I have just re-read the original posts and realised my mistake was to read the results as seconds and frames not minutes and seconds.

I'll just have to save up for a faster processor ;-)

Thanks again

Andrew
rs170a wrote on 5/8/2007, 6:06 PM
I'll just have to save up for a faster processor ;-)

In that case, you might be interested in the
UK based PC vendor sought thread on the DV Info forum.
Quadcore system price was a bit over £2k.

Mike
UKAndrewC wrote on 5/9/2007, 3:52 AM
Thanks Mike

I'll change that to 'save up a lot' ;-)

Andrew
rs170a wrote on 5/9/2007, 4:40 AM
I'll change that to 'save up a lot' ;-)

I thought we Canadians get ripped off (due to the exchange rate between us and the USA AND all of our taxes) but you guys definitely win this one :-(

Mike