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edge.it
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May 24, 2007, 10:03 AM
 
is 25 minutes a long render time for 7 or so minutes of HD video? it has to be. which brings me to my next question what is A. wrong or B. what can i get to speed the process up?

i have a raid 0 with two hitachi drives 500gb, set up with apples raid. and its about 3/5 full. 400gb or so left on the drive. is the fullness of the drive causing a slower render? should i only have one projects worth of clips on the scratch ata time? and the rest on the back up drive? the raid has been moved from external to internal, maybe a defrag and setting up the raid from scratch might help with less data on it? i could stab in the dark for hours.

im running a mac pro 2.66 with 2gb of ram, and FCE 3.5.1

macpro 2.66 | 4GB | 7 TB
macbook pro 2.4i5 | 4GB | 500GB 7200rpm
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May 24, 2007, 10:22 AM
 
It depends what is being rendered.
     
edge.it  (op)
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May 24, 2007, 04:08 PM
 
HD video. in this case its only 7 minutes of it.

macpro 2.66 | 4GB | 7 TB
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jersey
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May 25, 2007, 07:09 PM
 
No, 25 minutes is completely acceptable.

I've had 40 hours of render time for 32 minutes previously. The set up was a bit complex however, as there were 15 layers of HDV.
     
   
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