V6 Help

cfolsom wrote on 6/24/2005, 4:05 PM
Okay Folks,

I need a guru to help me out here.

I'm rendering a file which is 15 minutes, four tracks, two audio...one being the primary audio track and the other with less than 20 seconds of total audio....the video tracks are the same....one track is the primary video and the other has less than one minute of video on it. I am using batch render to output a standard .avi and wmv9 @256k.

V6 started rendering the files estamating the time to be 33 minutes, then it jumped to 1:12, then to 1:55 and now it's at 2:04.

Would this be considered normal? or should it render faster?

My system specks are in my profile.

Any suggestions?

Chris

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/24/2005, 4:22 PM
Depends on what's happening in the file. If you have blurs for instance, this will really slow down the render. Any 3D? Same story. Any compositing modes? Opacity reductions? Median Filter?
It's not so much about the kind of media on the timeline as it is the processes applied to the media.
Keep in mind, renders to compressed formats can be slow too.
fwtep wrote on 6/24/2005, 5:07 PM
The estimate is based on the current frame (or more likely an average of the past few). There's no way it can generate an accurate total until it calculates (renders) each one. So unless you want it to do the render twice-- once to generate the estimate and once to actually render, there's nothing you can do.

Fred
cfolsom wrote on 6/24/2005, 5:12 PM
Thanks for the response.

The file is a very basic. It's a police report that I do for local TV. The thing that perplexes me is V4 does this same type file in about 10 minutes.

Could I have some settings different? If so, what is the easiest way to check them?

Thanks,

Chris

cfolsom wrote on 6/24/2005, 5:42 PM
So, the origianl file was kicking up to three hours...I cancelled it.

Out of curiosity, I pulled last week's show and, 17 minute .avi file. started to convert it to wmv9 in V6 @256k. It's been rendering for 55minutes and has 40 minutes to go, so sayith V6.

Whats up with that?

Chris

fwtep wrote on 6/24/2005, 8:52 PM
Are you 100% sure that your project settings match the media you're using? For example, if somehow your project is set for NTSC DV but your media is at a different resolution the render won't be 1 to 1, it'll have to do some calculations. Likewise, if everything does match up but you're rendering to a smaller or larger res that'll take some time too.
Spot|DSE wrote on 6/24/2005, 10:59 PM
Also be sure the project doesn't accidentally have the opacity/level pulled down at the event or track level. This will dramatically affect times.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/25/2005, 5:13 AM
if the same project renders in 10 minutes in V4, try opening up the project you made in V4 in V6.

Maybe there's a different setting in the WMV encoding... I've never had anything go slower because of V6. At least not hours slower, maybe 1-2 seconds ocationatly...