Longest You Ever Spent Rendering?

[snapware]

What is the longest you ever spent rendering a project?

[Dv8ted2]

From start to finish, about six hours.

[Nelson37]

Approximately 32 hours, encoding only.

[GreyDeath]

56 Hours for each of the OT Star Wars movies. TMPGEnc with all sorts of noise reduction, cropping and color correction. I was trying for a "perfect" transfer from LD, but now I know it's not possible given TV standards and resolutions. Ah, those were the days, now I don't try so hard. :P

[Sifaga]

47 hours, thats why i decided to buy a new PC

[redwudz]

When I had a Celeron 400, it used to take about 9-12 hours to encode a pair of SVCD files for a DVD backup with DVD2SVCD and CCE. It went to 7 hours when I went to a 900Mhz Athlon. With a 1.8Ghz Athlon, about 4 hours.

Of course there were faster hard drives, faster front side bus, faster memory and other improvements that helped along with the faster CPU. Still, it did just as well as my present computer, just took a whole lot longer. (I don't do SVCD anymore, just DVD.)

Now, transcoding with DVDShrink, about 40 minutes most of the time. A lot of improvements for doing backups in just a few years.

[BJ_M]

4.5 months (really)

[GreyDeath]

4.5 months (really)

NO EFFING WAY! What the heck were you doing?

[snapware]

4.5 months (really)

that is nuts, i thought my 40 hours was a lot lol

what kind of project?

[BJ_M]

a film

[guns1inger]

Relative to output length, 22 hours for 2.5 minutes of footage using Movie Looks (back on the old Athlon 1800+)

When I was a tester on the alpha version of the Brazil renderer for 3dsmax (then called Ghost) I had single image renders that took 30 - 40 hours or more. I have also had CG renders of well over 48 hours to generate only 4 - 6 seconds of footage.

[whitejremiah]

vcd conversion on a 200mhz pentium rig.....so umm..3 days? then another few hours to burn the output (that was back before there was a cool thing called buffer underrun protection)

[GreyDeath]

a film

We are just talking about the rendering time, right? :P

[RoopeT]

NTSC to PAL conversion with Procoder, a 90 minute film took 180 hours with Duron 800MHz (Mastering quality, 2 pass encoding)

[BJ_M]

a film

We are just talking about the rendering time, right? :P

yep -- just rendering .. on 122 cpus , 4.5 months ...

[bugster]

4.5 months (really)

I knew TmpGenc was slow but...

[lordsmurf]

For a single file, about 45 hours. Lots of filtering involved, long file.

For a single project, probably somewhere around 550 hours (about 3 weeks), just a bunch of tedious filter work involved. This was not encoded all at once, not enough hard drive space (about 4TB worth of files involved).

This was with P4/AMD ~2Ghz speed systems.

[BrainStorm69]

Thankfully, I don't have to render my projects, my computer does.