Does anyone else love rendering?

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I love to finish a long edit at 3 in the morning...export/render my cut and let my computer do all the work while I sleep in the next morning to awake to a nice finished product and rejuvenated body/mind/soul.
 
yes and no.

yes -> when the final output is what you want.

no -> when you realise you need to re-render.. argghh!
 
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And especially no when you crashed only an hour into your sleep and have to start over when you wake up.
 
Batutta said:
And especially no when you crashed only an hour into your sleep and have to start over when you wake up.
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That happened to me this weekend, but with Compressor. I was doing on-site video for a convention, which has to be turned around (video shot Thursday and Friday) to DVD by Saturday, along with web-compressed versions.

Set up the batch list Friday night and woke up Saturday to find that Compressor had failed to complete the web-ready versions (errors). At least the DVD-ready files were done.
 
Doing a 240 hr one now for 3 seconds. Luckily it can render in the background because it's not memory intensive. So I can still work a bit and besides I can stop the render and 'resume' later where it left off.

The only reason I'm doing it is because I like how it looks. And as they say, videos are forever. So, I'm sucking it up.

But no, I don't like rendering. But the end result is what counts. No one cares how long it took when they see it.
 
Batutta said:
And especially no when you crashed only an hour into your sleep and have to start over when you wake up.
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And (for the wintel bunch) especially when your new computer does a Windows update at 3am and reboots. New Computer checklist: Disable Windows Update.
 
If I didn't have to render, would I spend half as much time here on the forum???
The quick, single renders that is, not overnight.
 
Postmaster said:
Let me guess: Vue d Esprit?

Frank
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Model setup done in C4d then particled and meshed in RF4 then into, yes, Vue 7 for materials and final render. How did you guess? Are you stalking me? :beer:
( yes, it's my abstract. But it's cool and worth it, imo)
 
Sad Max said:
I prefer delivering.
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If that was referring to me, I have every intention of doing so.
And I'm only interested in getting one persons repsonse other than myself.

It's not a big deal to anyone other than me and them. But I like to share and posted a still grab already.

I'm not sure if that quote was intended for me and or to be insulting, but knowing you I don't think so. Either way, you know me well enough that I don't care anyways. I've shown my stuff since day 1 on this board, good or bad and continue to do so.


-Cheers
 
Well, you followed PostMasters quote which quoted me and followed with...
"I prefer delivering."

If you follow the converstation like a conversation, then, sorry, I thought it was a carry over.
My bad. I suck at online socialising anymore.

These 3 or 4 word posts just bewilder me all to hell sometimes.
Anyways, poo poo it. I catch on soon enough. :beer:
 
I hate rendering. I hope one day the need to do it will vanish. I can see rendering a transformer or something, but that's what render farms are for. Me, I CC a feature length film...5 hours. Run it through compressor...29 hours. I really don't like leaving my Mac on for that long unattended. But it's part of the game.
 
Richard J. Johnson said:
I CC a feature length film...5 hours. Run it through compressor...29 hours.
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One day we will laugh at this....

reminds me of a line about a fax machine from the film Almost Famous "we have this mojo down at the office....it transmits pages over the telephone....yeah, it only takes 18 minutes a page..."
 
Bah, video rendering is easy. Try rendering 3d animations where when you wake up, you have a good 30 frames rendered! Ugh.
 
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