Quote - Someone is going to "Mp3" the rendering business.

A friend of mine works at a professional studio, and the average song takes up from 2 to 200 gig of hard drive space depending on how many tracks are in it. Then it is mixed down to the final version that can be anywhere from 2 to 8 channels.

Crunching it to an mp3 does not eliminate all the steps that took it, from a hard drive per song, to a few meg of an mp3. Nor does it eliminate the time to record all those tracks.

Mp3 is a compression codec, it doesn't play the song, record it, or mix it down.

A render engine is a tad more complex that making an audio zip file.

It would be great if there was a way to get around all the math involved in rendering, but that wont happen on any hardware we have access too. Rendering has already basically hit a wall in what can be done. To see any huge reductions in rendering times is going to require new hardware designs that are based on quantum computing.

Currently there is only one quantum computer for sale, and it costs about 10 million to buy it, a small fortune to install it, and another small fortune to run it.

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