Rendering Times

Abomin81on

Abomin81on

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Hi guys, I hope everyone is well and looking forward to warmer weather ;)

I'm using HitFilm 2 Express for my editing purely because it was free and seemed to offer everything I needed. I'm recording at 1080|30 on a drift Ghost for audio and video and I'm finding that rendering takes approximately 3 times the length of the video duration, so a 5 minute vid takes about 15 minutes.

Now, my PC isn't the newest or greatest, I'm running an intel i5 2500k @ 4.5 Ghz, 8GB ram and windows 7, I use a mix of SSD and HDD but I've not noticed any time saving when using SSD only.

My question to you all is: Will another editing suite render faster or is it going to make no difference without a hardware upgrade?

Thanks for reading and helping if you can
 
Damn I was hoping to be able to hit a 1:1 rendering time at worst. I've not tried any other software yet so I think I'm going to have to. I thought what I had was slow but maybe not. If another package takes significantly longer I'll stick with hitfilm.
 
...yeah, why don't you go with a Mac :o ??? Can't go wrong with the speed ;) ... even with a used one :) . Having a PC is the thing that's killing you :o ... especially with all of the antivirus software continuously running in the background, etc. :o ~
 
I use adobe premiere and have a 3570k 4.3ghz, 8Gb ram, and the only thing that will help me is a more powerful CPU. I don't do an extreme amount of videos, so my setup is fine. But If I were to do this more often I would opt for a 2011 socket and probably a 5930k, aswell as 16gb of ram.
 
I'm using Adobe Premiere Elements, and I'm getting a similar 3:1 rendering time.

If money was better, I'd probably upgrade to a PC with a more dedicated graphics / video oriented build....
 
I'm using Premiere Pro on a 2012 Macbook Pro i5.

I'm getting anywhere from about 3:1 to 10:1 depending on how much scaling, effects, transitions, video tracks and cuts I'm using. I'm sure that with a better graphics card and a quadcore processor I could reduce that a bit, but I'd never hope to get anywhere near 1:1. Not for the level of detail I like to put in and the amount of money I would have to spend! I usually just let it render while I'm polishing my....... bike.
 
AndyManCam said:
I'm using Premiere Pro on a 2012 Macbook Pro i5.

I'm getting anywhere from about 3:1 to 10:1 depending on how much scaling, effects, transitions, video tracks and cuts I'm using. I'm sure that with a better graphics card and a quadcore processor I could reduce that a bit, but I'd never hope to get anywhere near 1:1. Not for the level of detail I like to put in and the amount of money I would have to spend! I usually just let it render while I'm polishing my....... bike.
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Is all of your video stuff on your system (internal) HDD or an external :o ? If on the system HDD, try putting all of your video rendering files onto an external HDD and hopefully things will speed up considerably ;) .....

(at least I'm hoping that right now it isn't on an external :o ~)
 
The laptop i5's are pretty low performance processors, and the higher end laptop i7's are closer to the lower end desktop i5's so a 3:1 and above ratio isn't surprising for basic encoding.
 
2:1 seems like a dream to me, just worked out that the least mine has ever been is roughly 21:1 with little effects! Really need to get that upgrade...
 
I didn't even realize 1:1 was achievable without a ridiculously expensive/OP set up. I got a 3.6ghz i7, 3gb Radeon 7950 GPU, and 16gb 1666mhz RAM and I just rendered an 8 minute 1080p 60fps video and it took me damn near 30 minutes.

Is that bad rendering time? Had I allowed Vegas Pro to use my GPU it probably would've knocked 5 or 10 minutes off the rendering time though but I forgot to enable it and only realized half way through :D
 
NevRR said:
2:1 seems like a dream to me, just worked out that the least mine has ever been is roughly 21:1 with little effects! Really need to get that upgrade...
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My old PC was doing about that, 21:1 and couldn't take it anymore :mad:, so I got myself a gaming laptop with :
  • Intel Core i7-4700HQ 3.2GHz to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost
  • 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM
  • 750 GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive
  • NVIDIA Geforce GT840M with 2GB GDDR3 VRAM
  • Windows 8.1
I am happy now that Sony Movie Studio render's at 2:1.:D
 
So my last video here, just about 6min, 1080 60FPS constant bitrate a little over 1hr 40min...

I7, 16gb ram, onboard video so only CPU rendering, I'm sure better video card would help

 
Correct crippled laptop, however does well. I brought up a thread a while ago about maybe spec'ing an editing machine but just don't see it as a necessity yet.
 
They're not bad at all, I just have a real problem with them being advertised as i7's when they are effectively slightly worse than the i5's clock for clock and have the same number of cores.
 
Yeah I know what you mean, not a big fan of the false packaging however its always been like that with laptops :lol:
 
For me it really depends on my rendering settings. The full on 60p I started using for my Cars & Coffee videos will take longer than the vanilla 30p I am doing for my vlogs.

I got a i7 4970k @ 4ghz, 16Gb Ram and a 3gb Radeon280. The software is the ancient but still awesome Sony Vegas 10 Pro. Rendering in vanilla works out to be 1.5, and rendering 60p doubles that easily. When I upgrade to windows 10 and a ssd I bet that will change things. (or it will break my old Vegas... and I got to spend more $$ on the newer version...)
 
Instead of keep moaning, i've taken action, and bought an alright specced PC

AMD FX-6300 6 Core 3.8-4.1GHz (yes intel id better but too expensive)
8GB DDR3
2GB Video Card
1TB Drive

Got an incredible deal second hand! Should upgrade my 21:1 ratio :D
 
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