Help shortening export time!

[BakersfieldTheShow]

I've been learning Anime Studio Pro for a few weeks now, and I'm getting to the point where I am ready to make short animations. Today, I was testing out exporting some very short animations (about ten seconds) as both mov and avi files. The only problem I had was that it was taking about 20 minutes to export a 10 second scene that was uncompressed 720p. When I rendered it at half dimensions and compressed it at moderate quality, it took a little less than 10 minutes.

I know that rendering can be a lengthy process, but over ten minutes for ten seconds of animation? That seems a bit much. I'm not sure how long it would take when I start making animations with lengthy action and dialogue.

So I am looking for any tips or advice on how to export higher quality animations without huge time constraints.

Also, on one of the Anime Studio User Stories from the Smith Micro site, a user had stated that he had very long render times before he learned how to hide images that were not on the screen and hiding particles. I tried to find more information about how to do this, but I wasn't successful. Any one know anything about this?

http://anime.smithmicro.com/userstories/mike-scott.html

Thanks in advance!

[slowtiger]

Yesterday evening I rendered a 55 seconds spot, and it took nearly exactly the same amount in minutes. So that's pretty normal, my machine is a PPC G5.

[sbtamu]

Render times are still a problem for even the pro studios.
Watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNnN7Y3 ... r_embedded

[Acesonnall]

Same question as this guy.