kona and rendering in pro res 422
by Core van der Hoeven
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Apr 7, 2008 at 6:03:32 pm
It's my first post here, so hello I'm Core.
For the first time I'm doing a project loaded with effects and the render times are killing me(color, motion, speedchange with twixtor pro, super imposing in fcs) and this all in the apple pro res 422 Can someone inform me on shortening these render times on a mac pro, maybe with the Kona 3 or the Kona io you would make me real happy
I'm on a mac pro dual core with 6GB RAM, and a LaCie biggest as the media storage(5 discs in a raid 0)
thanks, Core
Re: kona and rendering in pro res 422 by walter biscardi on Apr 7, 2008 at 7:33:26 pm
Twixtor is very slow due to all the calculations.
Motion and Color render faster with beefier graphics cards like the ATI 1900 or even the 2600.
Kona 3 and Io HD do nothing for render times. They allow the machines to work faster in more realtime and realtime previews in FCP but do not speed up renders.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: kona and rendering in pro res 422 by Core van der Hoeven on Apr 7, 2008 at 8:35:04 pm
Thanks for your reply,
So I better check out other graphic cards
But is that the only way to speed up renders?
Your Color tutorial on DVD was a great help by the way
Re: kona and rendering in pro res 422 by Arnie Schlissel on Apr 8, 2008 at 4:13:32 pm
I do not think that a new graphics card will speed up Twixtor. It will speed up rendering & improve real-time previews of any FXPlug filters that you use, though.
Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
Re: kona and rendering in pro res 422 by Core van der Hoeven on Apr 8, 2008 at 4:29:54 pm
Anything that helps is welcome
I believe the Ati 1900 is the fastes graphic card I can get for my first generation mac pro
I know, it's getting off topic
Core
Re: kona and rendering in pro res 422 by Matthias Halibrand on Apr 26, 2008 at 2:19:23 pm
I'm on the same machine and just installed a new Nvidia 8800GT, which is available from Apple for two weeks now, so this is what's nominally the fastest, even though there are reports with the new MacPro that the 2600 is faster in Color and Motion, but I think this will be solved with new updates.
