hi,

i'm writing this little thread because i think it must be helpful for many people.
Moreover, i just finish to render a scene, and it took.....12.5 hours whereas i forecast 3hours !!
Yes, you read right ! Even the scene is just long as 10 seconds, and made of 300 frames, in 640x480 resolution.

The scene i build is there : My Poser7 French Video Thread, only me...:-(
The video in normal resolution is just there, the file is a little 6MB xvid format.

So, when i see my clock, i say myself : Mike (it's me), you have to find a real girl, better to render a virtual one !
No, in fact, i said myself there must be something 's wrong or something must be better for rendering in Poser7;
Because my computer isn't a shXXt, even without be a last ferrari Core2Quad X CPU...
So i find a quick way to SPEED UP by x6 the render speed. i tested this method with a simple render, but tomorrow, i will rebuild the animation.

Before, a simple render took 2 min 50 sec
After the new setting, the render took 25 sec  ,
so an 6x factor without change hardware !!

My configuration is like that :

   
It is not useful for optimize, but maybe movie setting can be interested for someone :

The render setting , before :

after :

• i put it to the min, and i add 2 in Gosian blur to be more pretty

Manual setting :

before :

and after where i put up the bucket to 256 AND remove Smooth polygon (very expensive time) :

The main option,

before :

and after :

• switch off sparate Process (i heard it can speedup render but...not at home !!)
• and siwtch of memory bucket size auto (i have 2GB memory)

Some kind of consequences  :

before :

you can see even with 2 core, the process never up to 50%, and the memory used don't grow up too. I also kill unecessary other process, only 19 are running.

and with the new configuration : more memory used + more cpu used (whatever, i don't want to use the computer during rendering).

Final constation :

Here is the fastest render after optimize config/opton (25 seconds):

and that is what it took 2 min 50 secs :

so, i think the difference between AFTER and BEFORE don't deserve to wait 6x more time.
Moreover, i chose a high resolution for the render picture, in my video, it less 2x low, then i expected to render the animation tomorrow at least 12x more quickly, maybe 1h instead the 12.5 hours !!!

i hope the difference between the quality video should be less viewable than a higher single frame.

so, now, good night (for me it's 00:45 AM) !!!