Rendering trick?

[m rixon]

We all know how atrocious the rendering times are in Cool 3d.but if your project is say 15 secs, long and just before rendering you reduce the no. of frames to 25 the project is now only 1 sec.long.If you then take your 1 sec. project into Mediastudio and slow the speed to bring the time back to 15 secs.will the quality of the project be seriously reduced?
I saved over 1 hour on a project using this method but cannot yet test the quality on a large sceen TV.On a small monitor it looks ok.
Comments please.

[Ron P.]

Interesting technique.., however I don't know and will not know unless someone like yourself plays the guinea pig, as I don't have an HD TV.
It would be great if this does prove to work even in HD situations.

[sjj1805]

I haven't tried it but I would anticipate a jerky end result.
Without the correct number of 'natural frames' then the Video Editing program would have to invent the missing ones - probably by duplicating existing frames.
I would expect that the more frames that are generated the smoother the end result - ideally 25 fps for PAL | 29.97 fps for NTSC.

[daniel]

I would vote against it, for the reasons Steve pinpointed.

This would give horrible results except in one single case: a 50% speed of interlaced video. All casual viewers are fooled by this one.

If you want to reduce time either make it smaller in size and zoom in your video editor, it will be less visible; or better reduce the output quality and smoothness of the project in Cool3D.

[Ron P.]

This may be easier done with PAL, then NTSC, due to the odd frame rate NTSC uses. I also feel that it would not produce a quality rendering.

However there are alternatives and one such can be found in the following thread: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 984#119984

[m rixon]

I have had a chance to try it now and unfortunately the results are not very good.I may try the 50% trick next time.
Thanks for the interest shown.