Options to Increase Render Speeds?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:23 pm
Hi,
Great product. Although render times for HD content can be painfully slow to the point that I may not be able to use it practically. Here's an example of a 1 minute HD clip that took 34 minutes to render on a newish, speedy MacPro workstation:
System Specs:
MacPro Tower Intel
2 x 3Ghz Quad Core Xenon ("8-core" processor)
4GB RAM (677MHz)
Final Cut Pro 6.0.5
Clip Specs:
Codec: 1080p 23.98 10-Bit ProRes 422 HQ
Sequence Settings: Same as codec, 10-Bit Pro Res 422 HQ
Sequence "Video Processing" Settings: Render 10-Bit High-Precision YUV
Length of Clip: 1 minute exactly
Neat Video NR Settings:
Software Version: NV Pro 2.5 for Intel Mac
"Basic" NR Settings: Lum=40, Chrom=90, Sharp=10
Temporal Filter Radius = 1
Temporal Filter Threshold = 100 / default
Adaptive Filtration = unchecked / none
Adaptive Filtration = 100 / default
I am new to using the product but is a 38:1 render time normal? Also... during render I checked Apple's "Activity Monitor" and it only looked like the app was using about 40-50% of my available CPUs. Can this be optimized at all? Would using an RGB or 10-Bit Uncompressed Quicktime be faster than 10-Bit Pro Res? Can the app be run as a line command to a render farm? Help! I'd love to use the product but there must be some way to make it faster.
Ideas?
Paul
Great product. Although render times for HD content can be painfully slow to the point that I may not be able to use it practically. Here's an example of a 1 minute HD clip that took 34 minutes to render on a newish, speedy MacPro workstation:
System Specs:
MacPro Tower Intel
2 x 3Ghz Quad Core Xenon ("8-core" processor)
4GB RAM (677MHz)
Final Cut Pro 6.0.5
Clip Specs:
Codec: 1080p 23.98 10-Bit ProRes 422 HQ
Sequence Settings: Same as codec, 10-Bit Pro Res 422 HQ
Sequence "Video Processing" Settings: Render 10-Bit High-Precision YUV
Length of Clip: 1 minute exactly
Neat Video NR Settings:
Software Version: NV Pro 2.5 for Intel Mac
"Basic" NR Settings: Lum=40, Chrom=90, Sharp=10
Temporal Filter Radius = 1
Temporal Filter Threshold = 100 / default
Adaptive Filtration = unchecked / none
Adaptive Filtration = 100 / default
I am new to using the product but is a 38:1 render time normal? Also... during render I checked Apple's "Activity Monitor" and it only looked like the app was using about 40-50% of my available CPUs. Can this be optimized at all? Would using an RGB or 10-Bit Uncompressed Quicktime be faster than 10-Bit Pro Res? Can the app be run as a line command to a render farm? Help! I'd love to use the product but there must be some way to make it faster.
Ideas?
Paul