Render time?

Maestral · Post by **Maestral** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:40 am

I`m testing different render settings and comparing the results, but haven`t found a way to measure render time (like in some editing apps). Is there a way to do that in AS or if it is already there - where should I look for it?

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:13 pm

What I usually do is render to PNG or any other image format and look at the time stamps to see how long it takes to render say 24 fps.

Maestral · Post by **Maestral** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:28 pm

Excellent idea, Gilles. Thanks.

It should be easy mathematics later on. Haven`t thought that way. Still, wouldn`t codecs take a part in rendering time?

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:05 pm

That depends on the codec, h-264 takes longer to compress then say QT animation codec, which is less compressed.

The time it takes to write to disk may play a bit as well, as in, if you render an uncompressed avi that can be several GB in size, writing time would normally be longer.

But, all in all, I use PNG, as it is fast to compress and usually small enough so the writing time does not play too much in your test!

Maestral · Post by **Maestral** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:09 pm

Gilles,
this is a long shot but I just woke this thread, during some search, and would like to reply with Thank you, since I remember that your approach worked just fine.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:41 pm

Dang, We just got back in time, 4 years, almost to the day.

Glad I could help!

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