Unusually LONG rendering Times...HELP!

satchriani wrote on 6/6/2003, 4:55 PM
I just finished a 16 minute long photo montage, with about 170 photos, all PSD's. I have reduce flicker on, and all of the photos have keyframe motion.

I'm running a P4 1.7 with 512mb on an ASUS P4B266 motherboard. It took 3 HOURS to render this damn thing using NTSC on Good quality.


My buddy rendered it in 34 minutes on his dual Xeon machine, i think they're 1.7's or 1.8's with 512mb of ram.


Why such a large difference? Is my system not setup right? I mean, I know his system is faster, but not THAT faster!!


HELP!!!

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seattlebk wrote on 6/6/2003, 5:31 PM
I run Dual AMD 2100+ Mp processors and i get the same time as your friend. I can render 1 hour of video footage in about 45mins so i think it may be that with that many photos as well as all the Keyframing motion it may just take that long with a single P4. Also if you have a lot of transitions, that will add to the time. You may want to render as you go in the future so if you need to make changes, you don't have to rerender everything again. Are you rendering to AVI or Mpeg? Avi take considerably longer.
kameronj wrote on 6/6/2003, 11:25 PM
It all depends on what type of file you are rendering to - and how you have set up the properties of that render.

A while ago as a test I rendered the same piece of video as a WMV file on all of the presettings available. Each (of course) gave me different file sizes, audio/video quality and (of course) each took progressivly longer to render.

It also depends on what has been done to the file (edits, FXs, changes, so on) that will add to render times. Yes, your system will have a lot to do with it...but it isn't very fair to generally say that a x-minute video took x-long on x-machine and Z-long on mine.

Hope that helps.
the_rhino wrote on 8/1/2003, 6:37 PM
Just FYI, my 2.53 Ghz P4 beats my former dual 1800 Athlon system. I ran some identical render jobs, and the P4 is about 20% faster. I now run several single CPU computers vs. a single dual processor machine on KVM switches for about the same $$$ as a newer duallie.