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My theory: that rendering to a thumb drive should be faster than writing
to a hard drive, so should decrease render time.
I did a rather unscientific test this afternoon but the initial results
seem rather interesting. I rendered the same project twice. The first
time, the rendered file was created on my 64 Mb thumb drive. The second
time, the rendered file was created on a hard drive, but not the same
file that the source files were on. The first file rendered in
approximately 34 minutes, while the second trial took approximately 51
minutes. This is a huge difference, but again this was not a very
scientific test. The results are so good as to make me feel somewhat
skeptical. This is a pretty simple test, so I'm hoping that some other
people will perform the test on their own systems and share the results.
I'll include some of the information on my test below.
James
System: 1.5 Ghz Pentium IV, 640 Mb RAM, Windows XP Home.
Project: 8:47 minute video rendered to WMV file at 512 kbps. Project
contains approximately 100 clips, plus audio tracks and transitions.
Trial #1: Rendered to 64 Mb thumb drive connected via USB 1.1 port
Trial #2: Rendered to primary hard drive. Source files on second
physical hard drive.
Size of file produced. Trial #1: 30,463 kb. Trial #2: 30,469 kb.
My theory: that rendering to a thumb drive should be faster than writing
to a hard drive, so should decrease render time.
I did a rather unscientific test this afternoon but the initial results
seem rather interesting. I rendered the same project twice. The first
time, the rendered file was created on my 64 Mb thumb drive. The second
time, the rendered file was created on a hard drive, but not the same
file that the source files were on. The first file rendered in
approximately 34 minutes, while the second trial took approximately 51
minutes. This is a huge difference, but again this was not a very
scientific test. The results are so good as to make me feel somewhat
skeptical. This is a pretty simple test, so I'm hoping that some other
people will perform the test on their own systems and share the results.
I'll include some of the information on my test below.
James
System: 1.5 Ghz Pentium IV, 640 Mb RAM, Windows XP Home.
Project: 8:47 minute video rendered to WMV file at 512 kbps. Project
contains approximately 100 clips, plus audio tracks and transitions.
Trial #1: Rendered to 64 Mb thumb drive connected via USB 1.1 port
Trial #2: Rendered to primary hard drive. Source files on second
physical hard drive.
Size of file produced. Trial #1: 30,463 kb. Trial #2: 30,469 kb.