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How to speed up the rendering?

bruno2bruno2 Posts: 30
in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi everyone, I'm doing my animations and when I render, I use viewport. It renders fast already (near 1 frame per 1 or 2 seconds), but is it possible to render even faster? Maybe if I upgrade my video card?

Also, which is the best option to render (Image series or avi video?) I tried with avi and it really reduces the video size, but the problem is to choose the right codec, nowadays I use image series and the only problem is a good video editor to put this all together, my currently video editor windows movie maker is kinda slow sometimes.

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  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

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  • bruno2bruno2 Posts: 30

    Thanks, and which codec / video compressor is the best option if I decide to render as avi? My avi files generated by DAZ 3D doesn't open fine, I have to convert to mp4 for the animation to play properly.

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

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  • bruno2bruno2 Posts: 30

    cridgit said:

    I can't tell you how to play AVI on your system, but I render to AVI then run it through ffmpeg to get MP4 which is 10x smaller.

    Do you use any codec or direct avi without compression? I remember using a codec that managed to reduce an avi to 2MB instead of almost 100 MB!

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588

    Compositing software will give you access to the modern, more efficient codecs like h.264 and h.265.

    There's one in Blender, (Blender always seem to be the answer cool)

    ...but try Hitfilm Express from this list of free Compositers:

    https://www.ma-no.org/en/software/video-editing/the-best-free-and-open-source-video-editing-vfx-and-compositing-software

     

  • SpaciousSpacious Posts: 481

    Just wanted to chime in to say that it's really much better to render to an image sequence than any type of movie.  For one you can render your project in parts, and also then you have lots of options.

  • Paper TigerPaper Tiger Posts: 108
    edited February 2022

    Spacious said:

    Just wanted to chime in to say that it's really much better to render to an image sequence than any type of movie.  For one you can render your project in parts, and also then you have lots of options.

    This. Rendering 60 frames, as an example, then allows you to throw them all in blender in order, then follow in reverse order, to create an extended loop. Plus, if one frame is messed up, you then only have to adjust/re-render that one frame, as opposed to the whole video.

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