#render woes

[cyberloops]

Rendering takes longer when you time up the fuckline

So after several hours of rendering... I realized that there were a few bad transitions that needed tweaking, and a few other little issues that I hadn’t noticed on the little sample real-time window in the corner while editing. No big deal, just fix ‘em and rerender, right?

Of course, I decided to get rid of some of the clutter on my timeline and delete a few unused tracks and whatnot. The most expensive video editor I can afford without piracy is (formerly Sony, now Magix) Movie Studio Platinum. For some reason they decided that a lot of people would be using this on a tablet or something, so the buttons and timeline tracks are HUGE, and can’t be shrunk down to fit on screen better. I can only see three at a time, since I had two audio tracks, a background image track, and a foreground text overlay track, I couldn’t see everything at once. Especially if there were extra tracks that I didn’t need cluttering the damn thing up.

And hey, I noticed that the default output for 720p has the same audio quality as the 1080p. No need for high res, it’s just a demo video. Save a little time so my poor dual-core 1.9 ghz doesn’t need to do so much, and save a little of my dwindling harddrive space.

So after a couple more hours of re-rendering, I realized two things. One, the text overlay was a little wonky and oddly pixelated around the edges at the different resolution. And two... the reason this was obvious to me was that thirty seconds into the video, there was nothing but overlay text on a black screen.

Apparently one of the timeline tracks that I deleted DID have a few background images on it. And, of course, because the program ain’t the most stable thing in the world, I instinctively hit the save button pretty often. So there was no going back to a previous state. I had to redo a couple sections.

So I figured I’d set it to render in full 1080p this time again, because what the hell. I was going to be out of the house for a few hours. Might as well.

End result: not too shabby. I still need to actually collate the audio files into a Unity project so I can upload it to the asset store. But I’m relatively happy with it. I just wish I’d been able to work on some actual music today instead of the minutia of marketing it.

[ankoku-jin]

This render I'm working on is like to kill me, mostly because of v-neck Vergil's stupid floating head, lol. Posing his head goes something like this:

Make a tiny change to his pose in XPS

Export as OBJ

Import into Blender

Move his goddamned floating head into place

Export as OBJ again

Delete the previous failed attempt from the DAZ scene

Import new OBJ into DAZ to check position

Curse wildly, weep, then go back to Step 1 and repeat for the next tiny adjustment

It'll all be worth it when the render is done in a day or two, tho. xD I'm sure there's a better way, but the meshmod won't line up no matter what I try and this is the only way I can think of to do this ^^;;