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Is it posible to shorten the Render time with talking animation in DAZ 4 Studio?

Alfhak712Alfhak712 Posts: 94
edited December 1969 in New Users

I made one test animation with lipsync in DAZ Studio!
The time for render and kompres to the AVI file took about 2 hours and 40 minutes!
The avi movie was just 22 seconds!

I installed a soundfile with my own recording just saying some words!
The animation is of 571 images cause the Genises figure move the head a little
and flash the eys and animated the mouth, so I do understand it is 571 images in total
for 22 seconds of recordings!

Is it away to short this time of render or is it the only way it works in DAZ Studio!

My pc is like this!

Intel 4Quad CPU with 2.66Ghz
6gb RAM
Nvidia GTX285 videocard
ASUS Rampage II Extreme Motherboard!
2x300Gb HD Velocy Raptor 10000/Rpm

Thanks

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  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited July 2012

    alfhak712 said:
    I made one test animation with lipsync in DAZ Studio!
    The time for render and kompres to the AVI file took about 2 hours and 40 minutes!
    The avi movie was just 22 seconds!

    I installed a soundfile with my own recording just saying some words!
    The animation is of 571 images cause the Genises figure move the head a little
    and flash the eys and animated the mouth, so I do understand it is 571 images in total
    for 22 seconds of recordings!

    Is it away to short this time of render or is it the only way it works in DAZ Studio!

    My pc is like this!

    Intel 4Quad CPU with 2.66Ghz
    6gb RAM
    Nvidia GTX285 videocard
    ASUS Rampage II Extreme Motherboard!
    2x300Gb HD Velocy Raptor 10000/Rpm

    Thanks

    .


    really depends on the lighting used .

    Post edited by bigh on
  • Alfhak712Alfhak712 Posts: 94
    edited December 1969

    I did not build up a scene or used any lights at all!
    The only thing was a close up on the face of the Geneses figure!
    The figured had skin and hair!

    I am not sure if I get you right there!

  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    alfhak712 said:
    I did not build up a scene or used any lights at all!
    The only thing was a close up on the face of the Geneses figure!
    The figured had skin and hair!

    I am not sure if I get you right there!

    ok - hair add to time
    render frame size add to time
    and so on
    so lot of things add to render time

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,056
    edited July 2012

    try hair without transmaps, (that is an image in the opacity channel under surfaces)
    render using openGL, you must not obscure the view port
    (I make the viewport and whole program window very small and make sure opening windows will not obscure it before I start rendering so I can do other tasks)
    also render to an image series in a folder and then open it in virtualdub for example to create an avi
    it will have no shadows and not look very arty but if you are looking to just do an animated face not so important.
    bottom image took 16 secs with transmapped hair using 3Ddelight
    top image not even a second with map for opacity for hair set to none and openGL
    neither have lights only default ambient setting
    had to edit as forum posted images wrong way around, the eye reflection gives it away!

    instant.png
    600 x 600 - 448K
    16_secs.png
    600 x 600 - 426K
    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,056
    edited December 1969

    I just rendered a short animation with that figure and hair
    took 14 minutes, will depend on your spec, I used 32bit as I could not be bothered reopening it in 64bit (lipsync only loads in 32bit but saved scene renders in both)
    http://youtu.be/TYF_gubKnpI
    my specs below

    specs_sc.jpg
    655 x 981 - 144K
  • Alfhak712Alfhak712 Posts: 94
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Wendy!

    I will try that and I like your short video!
    Amazing 14 minutes!
    The video I did was with WindowsXP and 32bit
    The CPU is Intel (R) Core (TM) i7 CPU 920 2.67 GHZ
    Now I have Win 7 and 64bit instead!
    I will try that you mention with the hair

    I see that you have the same score 5.9
    as I have! still wonder how you can get down
    to 14 minutes compare to my 2h and 40 minutes!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,056
    edited December 1969

    my score is mainly due to my limited main hard drive memory
    I have a lot of external drives for storing stuff including all my Daz content, too worried about losing too much if I get a drive failure so deliberately limited how much I can have to stop me filling it!

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