by Chuck Engels » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:18 am
I have not used this particular effect KD but some effects do take a very long time to render.
If you ever get the opportunity to learn and use After Effects you will see what long rendering is really like. My most recent project was a 3 minute video with effects that took almost 12 hours to render.
When you add effects the program has to process them for each video frame, that's 25 or 30 frames per second, so a 22 second video is between 550 and 660 frames. The more advanced the effect the longer it will take. An hour to render 22 seconds is not unreasonable depending on the effect.
Now after saying all that maybe someone else has used the effect and knows if it is very intensive like you are experiencing. If it is not an effect that normally takes that long to render then there could be a problem, but I tend to think that it is probably normal.
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