render time for long pieces

[masseyl]

I'm rendering a piece based on data from the Cassini probe with about 7 tracks - 3 particle tracks, 4 single source tracks: 6 of them 'orbiting' around Saturn. I'm moving the microphone as if it's the probe making its final passes through the system. 

The sound is amazing, but the render time is getting super slow - as in it takes over an hour to render a single minute, and I feel like the program is going to freeze at any moment. Is this because the piece itself is an hour long? Is there a way to optimize that I can't find in the tutorials?

I'm running a quad core mac-mini.

[masseyl]

(09-26-2017, 11:24 PM)masseyl Wrote: I'm rendering a piece based on data from the Cassini probe with about 7 tracks - 3 particle tracks, 4 single source tracks: 6 of them 'orbiting' around Saturn. I'm moving the microphone as if it's the probe making its final passes through the system. 

The sound is amazing, but the render time is getting super slow - as in it takes over an hour to render a single minute, and I feel like the program is going to freeze at any moment. Is this because the piece itself is an hour long? Is there a way to optimize that I can't find in the tutorials?

I'm running a quad core mac-mini.

An update: the file no longer opens. I noticed before the final demise that the memory usage was over 13Gb on an 8Gb machine... I reverted back to an older, smaller version and have been rendering one 'orbital' at a time which still takes a while (about 4 minutes per rendered minute of audio), but at least it's rendering!

[Nuno Fonseca]

Thank you for alerting us to this issue... We have made some optimisations on Sound Particles, which accelerates the render time in small projects, but that optimisation apparently highly increase the render time of big long projects, like ours, a situations that we didn't had tested.

I will correct that for the new upcoming version.

Thank you...

[masseyl]

(09-28-2017, 08:45 AM)Nuno Fonseca Wrote: Thank you for alerting us to this issue... We have made some optimisations on Sound Particles, which accelerates the render time in small projects, but that optimisation apparently highly increase the render time of big long projects, like ours, a situations that we didn't had tested.

I will correct that for the new upcoming version.

Thank you...

My pleasure - it's a great program. Good luck!