exporting in as7
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I didn't mean to get nasty or testy. I just find it a bit annoying when people start jumping to conclusions without any real evidence. There are some people who always blame the developers or the software for their own issues. The fact is that rendering in AS7 is WAY better than before now that it has multiprocessor support. It's like the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs. It wasn't enough they get a golden egg each day... they had to cut it open to get them all. 
So you get multiprocessor support for renderings which is going to be beneficial 99% of the time when rendering. The few seconds of potential "slowness" when rendering a single frame on one processor is hardly anything to complain about.
To be perfectly honest, render times is of no concern to me. I don't even think about it except in terms of deadlines or scheduling. It it takes "X" time to render, that's how long it takes. I don't bother thinking about if this version is slower or faster. At the very MOST we are talking MINUTES or in an extreme cases maybe an hour of time in the big picture when it's all added up at the end of the project.
I haven't even been able to use multiprocessor rendering until I got my new Mac mini yesterday.
And now with my VMWare running on it I kind of give up one of the processors when I need to run Windows 7 on my mac. It's all good. Windows on my mac is faster than on my old crap PC.
Mac rules! I can get another computer off the desk. Dang mini is so small I almost lost it under some papers. Completely totally silent. Runs so cool its barely warm to the touch. And it was only $800.
-vern
So you get multiprocessor support for renderings which is going to be beneficial 99% of the time when rendering. The few seconds of potential "slowness" when rendering a single frame on one processor is hardly anything to complain about.
To be perfectly honest, render times is of no concern to me. I don't even think about it except in terms of deadlines or scheduling. It it takes "X" time to render, that's how long it takes. I don't bother thinking about if this version is slower or faster. At the very MOST we are talking MINUTES or in an extreme cases maybe an hour of time in the big picture when it's all added up at the end of the project.
I haven't even been able to use multiprocessor rendering until I got my new Mac mini yesterday.
And now with my VMWare running on it I kind of give up one of the processors when I need to run Windows 7 on my mac. It's all good. Windows on my mac is faster than on my old crap PC. Mac rules! I can get another computer off the desk. Dang mini is so small I almost lost it under some papers. Completely totally silent. Runs so cool its barely warm to the touch. And it was only $800.
-vern
heyvern, I do not think anyone on this thread has remotely came close to blaming the devs of anything. I think everyone that posted on this thread has agreed that AS7 renders faster for multicore users.
I do agree that on other threads I see some dev. bashing that IMO is unwarranted.
P.S CGs on the new machine. I'm slowly trying to take over my wife's 4 core Machine and give her my 1 core
On a side note, I was watching a behind the scene doc. about south park and they said it took almost as long to render 23 min. of a show as it takes to actually record the actors voices and animate it. If I recall Trey Parker said something like 28 hrs to render one episode.
I do agree that on other threads I see some dev. bashing that IMO is unwarranted.
P.S CGs on the new machine. I'm slowly trying to take over my wife's 4 core Machine and give her my 1 core
On a side note, I was watching a behind the scene doc. about south park and they said it took almost as long to render 23 min. of a show as it takes to actually record the actors voices and animate it. If I recall Trey Parker said something like 28 hrs to render one episode.
