When Rendering Holds You Back

Jeff Harper · December 11th, 2008, 10:00 AM

Think about what you said in your post. You said that the quality of your work is suffering in order to keep up.

Since you are a regular here you know you need either a Quad-core or i7, since those are the fastest and most cost effective options today.

5 hour rendering times doesn't even make sense unless you are using MB, etc.

Art Varga · December 11th, 2008, 11:05 AM

well I upgraded from a 5 year old ( but very high end gaming PC) pentium to a new HP quad core. I use Vegas and the difference in rendering time in amazing. Rendering time is virtually a non issue now. I also break my projects up as others have stated to smaller intermediate files. It seems I rarely have more than 30 minute renders now which is very manageable.

Art

Jason Robinson · December 11th, 2008, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Harper

Think about what you said in your post. You said that the quality of your work is suffering in order to keep up.

Since you are a regular here you know you need either a Quad-core or i7, since those are the fastest and most cost effective options today.

5 hour rendering times doesn't even make sense unless you are using MB, etc.

Yes, I am aware of hardware. I suppose I should rename the thread with "whine & complain" in the title. :-)

The part of the post where I am solociting input is the "what is your delay tolerance before you decided to change hardware or work flow? And what did you change?" I asked that in order to figure out what delays people were willing to have before realizing a change is needed.

Tripp Woelfel · December 11th, 2008, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason Robinson

..."what is your delay tolerance before you decided to change hardware or work flow? And what did you change?"

I think I have two options. Buy a faster box/components, or do something else on the project's critical path. I do the latter on another machine. Works for me.

If you're getting constantly pushed up to your deadline's last minute you might want to re-budget the time required in your jobs. You may be underestimating the true time requirements a bit.

I think we all wrestle with workflow optimization. If you find the magic bullet, I'm all ears.

Tim Harjo · December 15th, 2008, 02:37 AM

I hardly ever see how long it takes to render. Most of the time I have it run when I leave for the day. And since I work at home, leaving for the day means just walking out of the room. If I'm still awake, every now and then I'll check in on it just to make sure it didn't freeze, or have an error. Since I run it over night, it's always done when I get up. If I do set it to render during the day, then I work on the DVD artwork, go to lunch, watch TV...etc.

Alastair Brown · December 15th, 2008, 03:57 AM

Good Gawd, where am I going wrong then. I have a Quad Core machine with Raptor drives in Raid etc etc etc and tend to use a reasonable amount of Colour correcting. My average Blu Ray author time is 11.5hrs!!!!!!!!

Thats been the driving factor behine me upgrading to a new i& machine (just arrived!)

December 11th, 2008, 10:00 AM	#16
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	Think about what you said in your post. You said that the quality of your work is suffering in order to keep up. Since you are a regular here you know you need either a Quad-core or i7, since those are the fastest and most cost effective options today. 5 hour rendering times doesn't even make sense unless you are using MB, etc. Last edited by Jeff Harper; December 11th, 2008 at 11:15 AM.

December 11th, 2008, 11:05 AM	#17
Art Varga Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Belle Mead, NJ Posts: 552	well I upgraded from a 5 year old ( but very high end gaming PC) pentium to a new HP quad core. I use Vegas and the difference in rendering time in amazing. Rendering time is virtually a non issue now. I also break my projects up as others have stated to smaller intermediate files. It seems I rarely have more than 30 minute renders now which is very manageable. Art

December 15th, 2008, 02:37 AM	#20
Tim Harjo Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 195	I hardly ever see how long it takes to render. Most of the time I have it run when I leave for the day. And since I work at home, leaving for the day means just walking out of the room. If I'm still awake, every now and then I'll check in on it just to make sure it didn't freeze, or have an error. Since I run it over night, it's always done when I get up. If I do set it to render during the day, then I work on the DVD artwork, go to lunch, watch TV...etc.

December 15th, 2008, 03:57 AM	#21
Alastair Brown Major Player Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Glasgow/Scotland Posts: 626	Good Gawd, where am I going wrong then. I have a Quad Core machine with Raptor drives in Raid etc etc etc and tend to use a reasonable amount of Colour correcting. My average Blu Ray author time is 11.5hrs!!!!!!!! Thats been the driving factor behine me upgrading to a new i& machine (just arrived!)