I just ran a quick render test with 4 NLEs and Avid came out as the fastest in-app renderer. The media was a 30 sec. ProResLT 1920x1080p/23.98 clip dropped onto a timeline with render set to ProRes. This includes working natively as ProRes inside the Avid NLE and render settings to ProRes in Premiere Pro.
The system was an 8-core 2.26 Mac Pro, 16GB RAM, ATI 5870 card, 2x7200RPM internal drives as RAID-0, OS 10.7.3.
I applied the same MB Looks 2 preset ("movie star") in all four NLEs. This preset combines Cosmo (MB's face smoothing effect), diffusion, vignette and 4 color correction tools in the chain.
The fastest render time was right at 2 min. for Avid.
FCP 7 - 2:43
FCP X - 3:14 (10.0.3 updated version)
PPro CS 5.52 - 2:29
Avid MC6 - 2:00 (actually the Symphony 6.0.1 software-only version)
Among the folks working with FCP X, there is a general, undefined "feeling" that this recent update may have caused some issues, including slower rendering. In this test, it definitely came out last.
I stuck with Looks in order to do an "apples-to-apples" comparison, since various other built-in filters would give you different results and there's no way to correctly compare one company's built-in effect to an equivalent effect in another NLE.
- Oliver
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