Faster render times?

[David Morgan]

Hey all,

So I'm slogging my way through my first Red project, and I'm rendering out of Redcine to go into Avid. I've got a brand new HP 8600 Workstation (i'll get the full stats when I can) and my render time for abou 20 minutes of footage is 3 hours and change at the lowest resolution I can figure out and with no color correction

Am I missing something that might make this faster? Any help with fine tuning setting would be appreciated.

 

[Miklos Philips]

One vital missing piece of info would be what are your rendering to? ie. format. Also, whether you color corrected or not makes no diff... just FYI

 

[David Morgan]

Good point.

I'm rendering out QT for the Avid Dnxhd. The color correction did seem to make a difference, becuase my first time was 24 hours, then when I removed the correcting I had done it dropped to 15.

 

[MichaelP]

Are you rendering from the full fame, or the 1/2 or 1/4? That will change your render times.

Michael

 

[Jesse Hyde]

Hi guys, I have a xps 1530 with a core 2 duo 2.6ghz processor and 4gs og ram along with 320gb hard drive that runs at 7200 rpm and a 256mb nvidia geforce 8600m gt. Also I'm running vista 64, which everything works fine accept the render time is horrible. My view settings are at 1/4 high rez and my output is draft to QT at 10 bits, source files is a 4k 16x9 4:2:2. the clip is 25 sec, "running as a test" and the render time is 8 mins. Now i can't really think of anything that would slow this down other than running it on vista, but seems like if the program works completely then vista isn't the problem.