Rendering is taking too long, is it right?

[phazelee]

// I capture with vegas using my dvx100a / firewire
// I open up After Effects, and add these effects to the original raw footage
// Magic Bullet
- Letterbox
- Grain
- Vignetting
- Look Suite

// I render with settings
- 720 x 480
- Sorenson 3 ( Quality 80%)
- No Audio
- 24 / Film

// Rendering takes almost 6 hours for a 5 minute footage.

Is this right? I think this is way too long for 5 minutes.

Is there a way I can reduce this rendering time?


My PC specs
Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHZ
2.00 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeFOrce FX 5200 Graphics Card 128mb

[inspire84]

I dont know anything about PC's but my Incubus video took about 4+hours to render out. It was a 4:30 min video. But i had a different comp than you. Most of the time the long renders are from motion blur and lighting (and proly MB for that matter). Only way I belive you could reduce render time is if you had a render farm and had multiple computers networked together...but no one has 10 extra computer's laying around lol.

[phazelee]

I was thinking this

I could try to
- Capture in Vegas
- Render out the raw footage using Sorenson 3 (100% quality ) Hoping the size would be less than the original raw footage.
- Import it into AE and apply Magic Bullet and render it out with Sorenson 3 (80%)

If the video footage size is smaller, the rendering should take less right?
The raw footage is about 1GB, If I could compress it down to 500mb...it should make it quicker right?

So if it takes around 5 hours to render out 5 minutes, damn....rendering out an 1 hour 30 minute with magic bullet must be a pain

[Huy Vu]

Which version of MB are you using? Version 2 is a lot faster now but it still slows down rendering. I've never used the grain and viginetting function but that's probably adding to it. Your render time sounds consistent with what I was getting when I used MB version 1.0 (similar computer spec) where 1 minute of footage is equal to about an hour of rendering.

[phazelee]

Which version of MB are you using? Version 2 is a lot faster now but it still slows down rendering. I've never used the grain and viginetting function but that's probably adding to it. Your render time sounds consistent with what I was getting when I used MB version 1.0 (similar computer spec) where 1 minute of footage is equal to about an hour of rendering.

I'm using the latest Magic Bullet, the Magic Bullet Suite

Guys, I just got the Nucleo Pro and rendering now takes 3 hours instead of 6!
And this is with the Raw 1GB footage with heavy magic bullet processing.

Amazing what a single plug-in can do.

I can easily browse webpages while my footage is rendering :beer:

[kai]

Dude don't work in Sorenson 3. Work with as clean a compression as you can. Sorenson 3 is really only a web delivery format.

Magic Bullet is a render hog, so using Nucleo is a good idea.

[phazelee]

Dude don't work in Sorenson 3. Work with as clean a compression as you can. Sorenson 3 is really only a web delivery format.

Magic Bullet is a render hog, so using Nucleo is a good idea.

What do you recommend for DVD ?

I use Sorenson 3 for posting it on the web

[Roadkill475]

I was adding a vignette to a 15 second clip and it took forever....Magic Bullet Look Suite is insanely time consuming when it comes to rendering....What if you rendered out in Microsoft DV 48k?

[oneinfiniteloop]

What do you recommend for DVD ?

I use Sorenson 3 for posting it on the web

Here's the golden rule for AE rendering...ALWAYS render out a lossless format when rendering movies (i.e. .avi or .mov). Anything other than lossless and still's AE sucks at. I haven't done an image seq in a while, but a lossless format is faster than web formats even though the web stuff is smaller.

Here's an example:

20 sec ad, lots of layers, precomps, effects, rendered out in HD 1920x1080 took about 20 minutes or so on my computer.

The same ad rendered out as a quicktime with H264 encoding for the web took almost 6 times that at about 1 hour 20 minutes.

Render out your uncompressed footage, then compress for web in something else like Cleaner or QT Pro.

[Steve_Arm]

Just to add that while you add an encoder you add extra rendering time to do the conversion. Go uncompressed as others write.
And if you using the heavy Remove Grain effect...