An open prize contest. Guess my rendering time and win!
 

I'm not sure what I can offer. Maybe a trip to the Bahamas, maybe a pair of my old RedShoes, maybe a scene edit, or a trailer... I'm just not sure yet.

I have a 19 hour segment on my time line. It's not one long movie, but it's 19 hours of individual scenes. I will be rendering in 3 formats which are, 2 wmv speeds and an AVI.

That's all the info I can give you.

The contest is for 2 prizes.
1) guess the total render time.
2) guess the total file size of all the clips combined.

Closest person to the actual amounts wins THE PRIZE!

1 person can win both prizes.

a lot of varibles, like computers you're using etc. - actuall machine time or how long it takes you.

here's a guess - 52 hours

Now what will I do with RedShoes? I can always use content though...


Not many people in the contest. post some pics, that'll move things along.

System specs?

depeding on resolution, size and color depth, it could take 20 large SGI machines all weekend just to render 30 seconds of video.

comp specs are a big thing...but i would imagine if you do this full time you have one helluva editing machine...

i would imagine for 19 hours it would take about 6 hours or so

huh? i render 30 second of video in about 3 seconds

ok my guess. 72.4 hours

I have a jar of jelly beans. You can't see the size of the jar, and the jelly beans might be 3 inches long (they might not).

How many are in the jar?

You can win my old socks - to go with his shoes!

33 Minutes

Ok, here is what I'm using..
Win 2k Pro
P4. 3.06 ghz
2 gigs Ram
Nothing special on top of that. I built it myself.

26hrs 32min 16sec.....yes, that sounds about right

7hrs 24mins =)

I wish I could find a machine that could render 19 hours of footage at 3 speeds in just 7 hours.

What are you using to render it?

vegas video 5.0

my guess is 49 hours

im gonna guess 57 hours and 1 minute. :upsidedow

my guess is 50 hours

43 hours

75 hours

It will crash, every time. :error

You didn't even listed the hardware specs of the computer(s) you will use for this, hence this is a rather useless guessing "contest"...

41 hours 13minutes

2.7gb

Render time will be 27 hours and 53 minutes. Files will be 9.3 Gigs.

:winkwink:

Render Time 33 hours. Files will be 15.7 gigs

It's one machine.
It's just a pentium 4 3.06 ghz processor, with 2 gigs of ram. Everything else is just run of the mill. The mother board is an asus generic mother board. The graphics card is just a generic Matrox card with dual monitor capabilities. The only games it has on it are solitare and mine sweeper. Oh also I use a mouse and a keyboard for navigation and input. Other than that it's a straight up simple machine.


I can give this hint though... the reason I thought a contest would be fun is because by my calculations I figure this would take a long time... a lot longer than anyone here has predicted so far.

11 hours and 7,200mb

117 hours 24.8 gigs

100 hours

19 gigs

I can see now, why people pay me to do this. You all have grossly miscalculated. LOL I guess I was under the impression that you knew what AVI's were, and how long things take to render.

Anymore guesses? Or shall I stop it and base the prizes on these guesses?

My guess 63.2 hours

48 hours!

you didn't even read the thread...hence your post is useless

149 hours and around 60 gigs

25 hrs 75 gigs

118.27 hours 51gig

119 hours 52 gig - using my "price is right" strategy :)

12 hours. :) 30 gigs

Duke

too kind :)

89 hours and 72 gig

long enough to take a 100grand break. :)

I guess you GFY'ers have a lot to learn about encoding. :)

The final results are:
11 days, 5 hours and 34 minutes.(269.5 hours) And it produced 365 gigs of footage.


You were off by 120 hours and 305 gigs, and still won the time portion of the contest. LOL
Congrats.

Email me your address ([email protected]) with "gfy contest winner" in the subject and I'll send you out a prize. (it will be worth you sending me your email)

Just post in here what email address it will come from so someone else doesn't claim your prize. :thumbsup

Congrats, you won the file size part of the contest. The total file size was 365 gigs.

Email me your address ([email protected]) with "gfy file size contest winner" in the subject and I'll send you out a prize. (it will be worth you sending me your email)

Just post in here what email address it will come from so someone else doesn't claim your prize.

11 days on a p4 to produce 19 hrs footage on AVI and 2 sorts of WMV

60 mins 64 kbsec audio 1500 kbsec video 320x240 on divx makes 688mb

So what did you do? It wasnt coded right? Damn I should have know...

I'm flattered that you decided to copy my contest idea. It's a good feeling to receive reassurance that I have done something that others liked enough to use it themselves. :)

YEAH Bahamas here we come :) Lol ok well the addy is bob AT thinkx DOT tv :)

47.6 hours and 84 gigs

Yeah. Damn. I thought I gave you credit. My bad. Yes this was indeed inspired by your contest from a while back.

I just remembered who I told, SetTheWorldOnFire...

RedShoe 4/28/2005 10:29 PM it should take 238 hours. (roughly 9 days and 9 hours) give or take a few hours..

RedShoe 4/28/2005 10:30 PM I wonder if I should run a contest on GFY. LOL I remember AaronM doing that once before.

SetTheWorl 4/28/2005 10:30 PM reminds me of it.

ola Ive send an email Redshoe :)

Nice The Bahamas souns really good right now! :) Its coming from wjsevers AT earthlink.net cause Hotmail usually fucks up the important stuff lol