Looking for an i7 blender benchmark

[CMetaphor]

Well.... due to my lack of experience with this program and my utter impatience past midnight, I was only able to render the following: 150 frames, 30fps (oops), 800x600 (forgot to change it back), codec? (cant even find the option for codec, im just using Render Frames). Total time = just under 7 minutes? No idea if i even did it right or not. Like i said, throw me a bone here...

[andynerd]

naa you did it right! For me it takes well over a half an hour to render in that format O_O HOLY C@#$! Wow!

[CMetaphor]

But I couldn't even find a box to render it into a specific format, Not could I get the same camera angle that you had in your example video.... Not could i find a place to create a video from the rendered frames "buffer" window... sorry, haven't done this stuff in years . Perhaps could you still make a new .blend and explain to me exactly which steps you used? Then I could use exactly the same settings and do a more direct comparison.

Edit: Blender is only threaded up to 8 cores anyway.... I put it on my "Back 8" cores that don't normally work as hard. hehe.

[andynerd]

In this one it is all set up all you have to do is open the program and hit ctrl F12 and it will render the exact same!

[somecanadianguy]

What version of Blender did you do this in?
If I open your file with version 2.49 and press ctrl f12 to render I get this...
All frames look the same.



I'm doing this @ stock speeds for now.

[andynerd]

I am using the same version as you I have no clue why it did that O-o

[somecanadianguy]

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling Blender and am getting the same thing.

[CMetaphor]

Dead link on that attachment, it brings me to a blank webpage.

[andynerd]

FOUND THE PROBLEM! It was because my file was made in 32-bit and you guys used 64-bit, here is the one I made in 64-bit ubuntu!

[somecanadianguy]

Originally Posted by andynerd

Hey everyone I am looking to see how long it takes to render a 150 frame fluid collision in blender as a quicktime @ 15fps in the h.264 codec on an i7 system.

What resolution are you rendering at?
Can you post exact settings to use?