Redcine - Long output times

[Rick Darge]

I am using a 2.33 ghz dual 2 core Macbook Pro w/ 3 GB of RAM..


Using Leopard.

My render times for Jims R3D file are all taking 20 minutes, whether or not I make color adjustments or output at a higher or lower quality.

What kinds of times are you guys getting?

[jbeale]

My understanding is that with Redcine, your CPU is not important. It is the graphics card that makes the difference because the rendering is done by the GPU. (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone) In other words, high speed output requires a high-end graphics card.

[Billy Summers]

My understanding is that with Redcine, your CPU is not important. It is the graphics card that makes the difference because the rendering is done by the GPU. (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone) In other words, high speed output requires a high-end graphics card.

WURD...and a little bit of RAM

[Rob Lohman]

My understanding is that with Redcine, your CPU is not important. It is the graphics card that makes the difference because the rendering is done by the GPU. (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone) In other words, high speed output requires a high-end graphics card.

This is partially true. All the decompression and some other stuff is still done on the CPU and say an 8-core helps a lot here actually. The GPU stuff is doing the image processing so you can change parameters in real-time while the movie is playing, etc.

[Craig Bowman]

I'm getting render times of about 8.3 minutes with Jim's clip.

[Fredrik Harreschou]

The GPU stuff is doing the image processing so you can change parameters in real-time while the movie is playing, etc.

Wow. Hadn't thought of trying that. Nice feature.

[Rick Darge]

Why is it then that when I load the R3D file into RedAlert, I can ouput a draft quality quicktime in 2 seconds? Do we have that same option in Redcine?

Redcine is kinda scaring me. These output times are insane.. I can't imagine shooting an hours worth of footage only to have it take 20 hours to output it.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

red alert is not GPU based...

[SalaTar]

jpeg2k

[Greg M]

Why is it then that when I load the R3D file into RedAlert, I can ouput a draft quality quicktime in 2 seconds? Do we have that same option in Redcine?

Redcine is kinda scaring me. These output times are insane.. I can't imagine shooting an hours worth of footage only to have it take 20 hours to output it.

Because that is just a proxy of the actual raw file. Red Cine will add this feature soon....for now you are rendering standalone clips which take time from a 4K original.