Time Lapse Render Question

teaktart wrote on 6/11/2006, 4:34 PM
I shot about an hours' worth of video and want to do a time lapse that lasts a couple of minutes. I put my one long clip (CFDI) on the timeline and used a velocity envelope @300% and playback speed @4X to make it play at 12 times normal speed. I now want to render that out so I can see the results.

What template should I use?

I don't expect to do any editing beyond maybe re-rendering to speed it up even more.

I eventualy want to "print to tape" @ HDV quality for archive and also use this "speed" clip as part of a bigger project so want it to also be used again on the timeline.

What render format and what settings should I use? AVI? m2t?

I started to render in each of those formats and the "approximate time" is showing anywhere from 12-24 hours ! Yikes...

I did check the "smart render" option this time before capturing with HD Link 3.0

Is there a quicker way to accomplish this rendering?

Thanks much,
Teaktart

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 6/11/2006, 5:34 PM
I would use uncompressed AVI if i had the drive space available.

Disable resampling and the render will go much faster.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/11/2006, 6:22 PM
Disable resampling and the render will go much faster.

And, you will get cleaner video.

Also, if your input is DV AVI, I'm not sure you'll be able to see any difference between rendering using uncompressed, and rendering using the standard DV template. There have been lots of test over the years, and the Sony DV codec is so good, people can't detect any differences, even after many generations. Try a few frames and see if you can detect any difference.

Of course if the input isn't DV, then uncompressed makes good sense.

teaktart wrote on 6/11/2006, 6:56 PM
Woops...
I didn't disable resampling and the default seems to be a "smart resample". (I opened up another incident of the same project to check)
I have my project rendering a mpg2 (with m2t file extension) and right now it looks like it would take close to 24 hours to complete.

Since I'm using the CF 1080i file on timeline I'm confused which way to go: AVI intermediate or m2t intermediate if I want to keep the quality up and be able to go back to tape eventually.
Also, is the "best" quality worth it?

Which template would you use?

I want to keep the HD quality and widescreen at the end....I don't know which is the Sony DV codec and exactly which is the uncompressed AVI mentioned....my brain is getting scrambled big time at this point...I'm into the render 3 hrs now, would you quit and start again with the disabled resample and still come out faster in the end?
(Stayed up real late last night trying out the new Cinescore....)

Thanks again,
Teaktart