time to render

steve13 wrote on 10/27/2007, 5:57 PM

for a 2 gb video project, how long should it take to render with a decent pc?

seems very slow..i am a total newby, guess rendering is just saving in selected format? seems a really slow process to me

any help so i can understand

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 10/27/2007, 6:20 PM

Again, depends how you export. WMV is very slow to encode for example.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 10/28/2007, 1:02 AM

You should multiply with 3 or 4, depending on your systems specs and the number of effects etc that is in your project. So a 30' movie may take up to 2 hours to render. This is important stuff if you have a deadline!

laz wrote on 10/28/2007, 5:04 AM

It also depends on how many background processes you've got going on.

For an hour-long project with several titles and transitions it usually takes about me an hour to render to avi.

Chienworks wrote on 10/28/2007, 5:29 AM

Many factors contribute: processor speed, frame size, frame rate, source media type, output format, frame size, effects added, transitions, color corrections, text, track motion, pan/crop, compositing, masking, layers, number of tracks, 3D motion .... and so on.

What's a normal rendering time to render a one hour project? Probably anywhere from 10 minutes to 10 days is completely normal.

steve13 wrote on 10/28/2007, 9:46 AM

thanks to all!