AE rendering time
by Richisgame
on
Sep 23, 2007 at 4:53:56 pm
I am curious about rendering time.
I am archiving a bunch of VHS tapes to DVD, and QT, after doing some color correction work.
I am using AE 6.5, working on a Powermac G5 Dual 2.0, running OS 10.4.10
I just rendered the first two hour tape, after having done level adjustments, (throughout the tape where needed), and a 2% scaling to lose the black bars on the side and bottom.
The render took eight hours.
The second two hour tape, I did the same scaling, a similar amount of levels, but I also did a minor amount of hue/saturation and shadow/highlights.
The render took over sixteen hours.
Is this normal? Should the rendering time have doubled?
Re: AE rendering time by Dave LaRonde on Sep 24, 2007 at 2:23:23 pm
[Richisgame]"Is this normal? Should the rendering time have doubled?"
Yup. Every time you add an effect, you add to the render time. And some effects are more render-intensive than others. So doubling the render time sounds about right.
I do a lot of 30-second-long comps, and I would just LOVE to have one of them render out in 4 minutes, which would be the same time ratio on the second render you mention.
Re: AE rendering time by Richisgame on Sep 24, 2007 at 6:41:19 pm
Hey Dave,
I appreciate you getting back to me.
I though that doubling up was way too long, and that something must be wrong.
Thanks for the confirmation.
All The Best,
Richard
