What do you do when rendering?

[vjrei]

I decided to use 3 discontinued powerbooks G3 500 instead of one huge computer because when I'm rendering some work I can keed working in another computer and that is way more efficient than having just one fast and expensive computer I think, but some times (like now) I'm rendering and I have a few hours to kill. I can't get a coffie every time or watch tv.

I'm just curious what do you do when your computer is doing the work for you and you have to render 2 hour videos each hour or so.

[syzygy]

We've just got hold of a load of old computers that will become the syzygy render farm, so we can throw renders to them rather than having to tie up our main machines.

Up till now, I spend the time during renders mending stuff, tidying the studio (strange but true - our contract requires me, not Tom, do the tidying :confused: ), making phone calls, watching videos and sleeping (we batch up renders to go on overnight each night)

Dan.

[dusi]

somethimes i'm so exited i watch each frame being rendered!!! but mostly i render in the background and i'm building already new clip (3d)

[labmeta]

hmm, i find tidying the house is always a favourite too. washing the dishes especially.

But likewise having two computers has put a stop to my render cleaning sprees.

[Stilice]

check my mails ... check my mails ... check my deposit ... check time estimated ... check my mails

or...

as you said - clean something

nice thread

[complexvisuals]

Telephone sex lines or fantasy fetish wesbites

or

the dishes. (but not Holly's dishes)

Cian

[holly]

Wow, Any of you guys can come clean MY crib while you're rendering! That would be very much appreciated...

Mostly I work on web marketing and other less processor intensive jobs on an older computer. My renderer (mac) isn't allowed to have any office products on it (but it does have a web browser, ooohh noooo!).

[many2]

chat on VJcentral !

Many-2

[LEVLHED]

stare at the progress bar watching the estimated remaining time get smaller and smaller and smaller...
I *should* be cleaning and just generally doing my household duties but what fun is that?

no, I usually end up here...with you guys...
its not my fault I only have one computer to do everything, and its far from fast either..

[Lara]

Make food, eat food . . . mm doughnuts . . . loiter on vjf . . .

[vjrei]

Originally posted by holly
Mostly I work on web marketing and other less processor intensive jobs...

What! are you one of those sending spam???;)

[holly]

It's better than eating SPAM.:D

[charlielangridge]

Originally posted by LEVLHED
stare at the progress bar watching the estimated remaining time get smaller and smaller and smaller...


How is it that we create amazing and interesting combinations of colours and paterns, but the only thing that really draws anyone (myself included) is a little blue bar that increases by a couple of pixels a minute. I wonder how it would fair if i just displayed that in a club. :D

[sleepytom]

i like to sleep

[alangeering]

Often I'm in a place that is not my home and rendering on my trusty 1Ghz laptop.

When I'm away at a week long event producing clips for every day and night from video recorded in the day then I usually put a sleeping bacg next to the laptop.

I set the PC rendering, if it's more than 20 mins then I go to sleep and wake up at the end-of-render ding.

All sleep is good sleep!

Alan G

[Lara]

I looooove the end of render ding . . . . someone should sample it and make wicked tunes

[RayV]

checking e-mails, answering some of em, checking eyecandy, reading vj forums, entering VJcaht
(relaized i got hooked there, on the days the server was down)
dishes washing, cleaning, phone staff,

& one day i plan to learn knitting = how to
I could have a very long scarf
but i guesss that will stay at drawer plans
Ray-V ;)

[atomicone]

I either hop on the web and surf, or just pack a bowl and fire up the playstation.

The best way is usually to add stuff to the render que as I complete it, and then keep working. Once I'm done all the animation I need to do, I set the whole batch to render and go to bed. AE also has the option to import and replace usage after render, so I can create a composition, then bring it into a larger comp and keep working, and just streamline the render process.

[neoteo]

less priority to the render and keep on working

some times watch frame by frame coming

just to keep on with the thread ..
what was your longest frame to render ?
for me it was
1:30 minute per frame ..

[Linus]

i also use a renderfarm to render @ night and have also more computers to surf on the web or work on other projekts ...

But the most likely thing is to RENDER LIVE :)

If you have fast hardware (Dual 2Gig CPU/2 Gig Ram)
liverendering is possible :yep:

Linus

[Morninglight]

Visit Vj-forums :D

I'm resizing a batch of stuff atm.. 4h05 processingtime left running at ~13 frames a second

[neoteo]

some times you can render faster then realtime ..
if you dont have many effects on it ...

chating as been my main ocupation wille rendering :|

:alien:

[solly]

When rendering I usually drink beers or watch tv.
Solly

[Fullscreen]

grabbing pencil & paper, write down ideas, drop 'bad idea' papers in waste basket :)

[krezrock]

Lose sleep over that one keyframe that "could be" in the wrong place.:lurker:

[LEVLHED]

Think about how my time spent watching the render bar could be better spent working a 9-5 in a factory to earn money to buy a faster computer that doesn't take so damn long to render.



















bah
fuck work

[disassembler]

I watch every frame or tweak my jitter patches.

[vjsatellite]

I should be sleeping, however I recently re-discovered the joy of playing Galaga(running mame on my xbox).

It's too addictive... :alien: I have a problem...

[Amukidi]

I render overnight these days, especially as they are often 12 - 13 hours! So I sleep!

[fALk]

Originally posted by Linus

But the most likely thing is to RENDER LIVE :)

If you have fast hardware (Dual 2Gig CPU/2 Gig Ram)
liverendering is possible :yep:

Linus


he yes. its really scary how much this computer changes my life right now. I actually have time on hand and sometimes I even get bored (which never happened before mostly due to watching rendering bars and looking at every frame rendered).. sometimes I am really scared of that machine down here :) but I guess it makes you more creative in the end by endlessly tweaking and retweaking...

:)

[katascope]

I weave chainmail. It's actually very easy to do. Also easy to pick up and put down.

[bluntfaktory]

herd sheep

[LEVLHED]

herd cats

[syzygy]

heard voices

[Ollie]

roll a reefer :roll:

[vjrei]

I'm rendering now and looks like all of you are too:zzz:

[disassembler]

Originally posted by MysticalFish
roll a reefer :roll:

Ahhhhhhh! true love.

[scarab]

looks like this guy also didn't know what to do during rendering...
but i think he found his proper pasttime and made it to a world record :D
http://terrence.cheung.swellserver.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord.php

[VJRa]

Now when I'm rendering despite being a priority MAC user, I play "Pandora?s Box" in a hold PC that I have.
It?s a puzzle game that keeps me busy when at the same time I?m thinking in my next editing moves. You should try it.
:cool:

[Morninglight]

mmmh.. I'm rendinging some heave stuff atm... my 2 P4's 2 are both running for 8 hours now.. 6 hours to go and its 23.30 already :eek: hope I can sleep with the humming nearby :grrr:

[alangeering]

I know this is bringing up an old thread...

Just rendering 01:28:20:05 (hh:mm:ss:ff) of video in Premiere on Athlon1900.

Gonna take a while.

I'm off for a pub dinner with freinds. There's even time for a trampoline session and a shower before hand!

When I get back I get to transcode overnight.

DVD should pop out of drive just before I leave the house in the morning.

Alan

[alangeering]

Or maybe not:

Premiere estimates time at 28 hours to go!!

[syzygy]

The premier 'time left' estimate, like the AE one, is often very wrong.

This is especially the case if parts of your project have more effects on than others - when it is rendering thsoe parts, the time estimate shoots up.

Dan.

[sleepytom]

i have allways wanted the "time left" estimate to give you suggestions of what to do whilst you wait - eg "have a cup of tea" or "have a spliff" or "have a bath" or "have a holiday in thialand"

do you own a trampoline then alan?

[unjulation]

i'm guesing hear but i always presumed that prem read the file and calculated the time based upon what it needed to do with that frame and then timed it by how meny frames it had to do based upon that, then when it it found new peramiters within its rendering it would use that to calculate it's render time hence the changing time of rendering

this can be seen when you render two clips that have a space between them when it gets to the blank space it thinks it will be finished in a few seconeds then when it finds something to actualy render then the time line goes up

could be wrong tho :rolleyes:

[sleepytom]

yep thats basically whats going on - we will have to wait for quantum computers that can complete the task and then travel backwards in time to tell you how long its going to take.

[alangeering]

Originally posted by sleepytom
do you own a trampoline then alan?

Nope, but my sister does, and since I live in the same place (sometimes)...

http://www.badgerandco.co.uk/images/tramp.jpg

[sleepytom]

wow wow wow i want one :)

[dongbamage]

Originally posted by vjrei
I'm just curious what do you do when your computer is doing the work for you and you have to render 2 hour videos each hour or so.

Smoke a big fat doobie and then stare in wonder at my hands :P

[alangeering]

Rendering was almost realtime in the end... transcoding is a different matter. First pass took 5 hours, that's 4x realtime. Now we are on 2nd pass. So a total of 8x realtime.

That is painfully slow for a long project. 10 hours of transcode and 2 of rendering. And the PC aint too slow.

Trampolines cost around ?300 now.

Little tip:
Try to get a white surface... then detach the legs and see whether you can you is as a massive circular screen...

alternatively:
Take your fastfold, attach springs and jump on it.*****



***** Don't do it. If you don't realise this is stupid you don't deserve a fastfold.

[Kyle]

Go for a jog in the park with a CD player.:)

[lowRes]

eheheheh!!

rock , roll it and go!!!!

space time continuum!!!!


* )

ps:: that's why after 2 and a half years after quiting cigarretes i started smoking again.. too many joints whyle rendering is not so good for your health!! or not!!!


ahahahahahah!:D :D :D