Mistfall opened this issue on Oct 23, 2003 ยท 14 posts
wabe posted Fri, 24 October 2003 at 1:33 AM
Well, render times are always a surprise to newbies :-)) What setting have you had for your animation? 15 frames per second i assume. That makes 150 frames to be rendered. 4 hours are 240 minutes. That means less than 2 minutes per frame. Not sooo bad. Problem here is probably the volumetric atmosphere. Maybe you test it again with a standard atmosphere to see the difference! The other problem could be, that broadcast rendering on my Mac seems pretty slow as well. I only uses it when i really do have motion blur in a scene. For me "final" is enough. But that my 2 cents only. I think others have found out as well, that broadcast in Pro is slower than in Vue 4. Strange, but... When it comes to render times, i always tell, that our longest renderer took 3 weeks - for one image (high resolution for print). Just to make you feel better! Or so. Let us know when you need more help, Walther PS: If you do have some old windows boxes (or Macs with OSX, how about using the RenderCow and let all your computers help your poor iMac that will never be switched off for the rest of his life anymore probably.
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