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Old June 29th, 2009, 10:58 AM   #1
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10 hours of rendering???

I rendered a 50 minute 1080 24p project last night, it took 10 hours to render.

I rendered as a WMV 6.4mbps project.

anyone else have that kind of render time??
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:06 AM   #2
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That is certainly possible depending on the source format, the output format, and what effects are used on the project.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:23 AM   #3
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Ian, you did not say what you're running. A Pentium 4 might take a day to render your project, and an i7 will take only a fraction of the same amount of time...
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:23 AM   #4
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sorry, forgot to add that.

I was shooting on the ex3, so it was an MXF format, and there were no effects.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:24 AM   #5
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hahaha, forgot that too.

I am running a quad core pentium. no i7 as of yet.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:34 AM   #6
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You're rendering time sounds normal to me. Ouch, that is a long time though.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:37 AM   #7
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You're rendering time sounds normal to me. Ouch, that is a long time though.
ok, I wont freak about it too much then. but yeah, 10 hours was crazy, and I had two projects to render out.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:42 AM   #8
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If you are doing much more of these 1080 projects I can imagine you'll be upgrading your processor!
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Old June 29th, 2009, 11:55 AM   #9
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Yep, 1080 is a long way from DV! :)

This is why I just ordered an octo-core machine. My old editing suite was set up for DV work, and it struggles mightily with the HD coming off my EX1!
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Old June 29th, 2009, 12:03 PM   #10
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If you are doing much more of these 1080 projects I can imagine you'll be upgrading your processor!
indeed I will be. just dont tell my wife!
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Old June 29th, 2009, 12:13 PM   #11
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I usually render over night as I sleep or when I'm out.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 12:28 PM   #12
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I usually render over night as I sleep or when I'm out.
yeah, I rendered the first project when I was asleep, but forgot to check how long it took in the morning. when I saw the estimate for the second project, I got curious.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 04:25 PM   #13
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While it is not HD, I just rendered a 01:35:00 minute project in 00:19:32. I'm still impressed by these i7s.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 05:53 PM   #14
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It's Windows Media Encoder that's taking so long, not Vegas.
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Old June 29th, 2009, 07:19 PM   #15
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Yep, 1080 is a long way from DV! :)

This is why I just ordered an octo-core machine. My old editing suite was set up for DV work, and it struggles mightily with the HD coming off my EX1!
Will Vegas take advantage of more than 4 cores? I thought it was only up to 4 cores?

How about farming or network rendering? Running on Gigabit ethernet, would 2-3 or 4 quad cores (or i7s) be better and yield lower render times? Will Vegas treat each machine like it was a single core/task and will just rely on the results that computer gives out instead of counting cores?

If not, I guess the best recourse now is to go for i7s if you want to get the best speed at this time for 4 cores.
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