Possibility to speed up the merging process?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:32 pm
by kami
Hello
When merging a scene after a network render, it takes quite a while (especially for big scenes with a lot of used nodes). Is there any way to speed this up?
Or what does influence the merging process in a positive way?
I guess a fast hard disk (SSD), enough memory (of course
) and a fast machine (is a higher frequency better or a strong processor with as many cores as possible? = i7 vs dual xeon)
Thx for the info
Re: Possibility to speed up the merging process?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:26 pm
by numerobis
Re: Possibility to speed up the merging process?
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:46 pm
by kami
thanks for the link, that is indeed interesting!
but also a bit frustrating, as the only way to really improve the process would be on the software side...
I did not find any info about that in the other topic, but I think it is only running on one core right now? If it would run on 4 cores, it could do 4 merging steps at once, but I assume that would also mean it uses more memory for the process?
The next huge boost would have to be done with improving the network rendering software to let the nodes do their parts in the merging process. The old post is a bit more than 1 year old, are there any improvements planned in the next future?
I am not a software engineer, so I'm not gonna write another network managing software which does, what is explained in the thread. On the hardware side, I seem to have the ideal solution for the current limitations: an overclocked i7-4770K with a SSD.
Re: Possibility to speed up the merging process?
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:31 pm
by polynurb
Re: Possibility to speed up the merging process?
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:39 pm
by Mihai
The biggest optimisation you could do is avoid having unnecessary ML sliders, and use ColorML only when needed because it's going to create a 3x larger MXI file compared to regular ML files.