What's best render speed to expect per minute of video?

clearvu wrote on 3/28/2003, 10:14 PM

{Already posted this message under the DVD Architect forum, but think it belongs here.)

I realise it all depends on the speed of the computer, however, I don't think I'm lacking in that department. I have a 3.06 G Pentium 4 with HyperThreading technology, with 1 meg of RAM.

I used to have a P4 1.7, with 512k of ram.

Although I do find a difference, it's not as great as I expected.

Currently I find that it takes an average of 1.75 minutes to render a 1 minute AVI file with some transitions.

Are there settings that I can do to help speed things up, or is it just that rendering is slow and live with it.

Brian

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/28/2003, 10:20 PM

Still no way to answer that. "With some transitions" is very open ended...Crossfades are fast, anything with a blur isn't. Background apps, type of ram, drivespeed, bus throughput, diskmodes, all play. Rendering has always been slow, no doubt. But there is no way to answer the question accurately.
2:1 isn't bad at all if it's just a crossfade transition.

swattum wrote on 3/28/2003, 11:39 PM

You're complaining??? I'm lucky to get 8 FPS in rendering with my Matrox RT2500 card (assuming I can get it to render at all); Vegas seem to be able to render in almost real-time with my Athlon 2100+ (of course this is *extremely* dependant on content, effects, etc) - maybe my enthusiasm is because of the night/day aspect between Vegas and Matrox/Premier in rendering.

Good rendering takes time - there's really no way around that.

While you mentioned an increase in processor speed, don't forget that rendering also involves lots and lots of disk I/O - if your disks are a bottleneck, then simply increasing the processor speed isn't going to help much.

--Scott