No. Assuming the editing app is written to take advantage of multiple cores (most *current versions* do these days), then adding a core will only halve rendering time. Real world tests show this drops off with 4 cores - going from dual to 4 cores will only improve the speed by maybe 30%. I can only speculate why Stewart's 12 hour renders dropped to 'near real time'. Maybe he was rendering a 6 hour project?
But this doesn't make the editors finish projects faster. If we ever catch one sitting and waiting for something to render, we give them something else to do. But generally they know to render during downtime - like overnight. So rendering time simply isn't part of the equation. Give them 8 cores and they still finish projects in the exact same amount of time. People working with multi-hundred megabyte graphics files is a small subset of graphics users. Presumably the guy must be making movie posters or something else very large and very high res. If he liked going multi-core, he should love Photoshop CS4 which is supposed to make use of the graphics card to manipulate those huge elements. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Absolutely!!! I know and have seen it with my dual core. Cut it from 12 > hours to almost real time. > At 07:35 AM 11/17/2008, Richard P. wrote: >> >> I can understand video editor limitations, but wouldn't the rendering >> time be faster? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
