Waiting for your video project to render

[Mike Thorpe]

Things to do whilst waiting for your latest video project to render:

- Bite your fingernails
- Pick your nose
- Pick someone else's nose
- Cry
- Rock back and forth, dribbling
- Hit the computer screen, shouting "oh for the love of all that is good and true, PLEASE COME ON!!!"
- Learn Russian
- Walk from Scunthorpe to Edinburgh
- Give birth
- Cut the grass with a pair of chopsticks
- Emigrate to Spain, then change your mind
- Think about that fade effect that you forgot to check
- Read The Bible
- Write a version of The Bible yourself, making sure that all the words are written backwards (except those starting with a vowel)
- Alphabetise your hair
- Write, record and produce an experimental Bhangra album
- Make a list of things to do whilst waiting for your latest video project to render

[Marc Peters]

Or go to a shop and buy a new PC?

[Alan Mills]

I've got a Matrox RTX1000 and have no idea what 'wait for your video to render' means.

Hee hee i just had to rub it in...

[Mike Thorpe]

[Marc Peters]

touché

[LJR]

Originally Posted by millsy I've got a Matrox RTX1000 and have no idea what 'wait for your video to render' means. Hee hee i just had to rub it in...

I have Pinnacle Liquid Edition and also have no idea what 'wait for your video to render' means either.

[Marc Peters]

I have magic bullet and it took 30 minutes to render a 3 minute video.

[LJR]

oh well, at least it gave you time to take a wander in the garden with your new XL2

[Ian in Northampton]

I started rendering mine on Friday evening. Since then, I have:

- almost completed Christmas shopping in Milton Keynes
- extracted the bloody radio from my wife's car to get the serial number so I can get the code so I can get it working again after the battery died (no-one told me you had to put distilled water in them - I thought that was a thing of the prehistoric past...) If you have never tried extracting a car radio with the bent coat hangers you can get from Halford's, there is a form of excruciating torture you have missed
- replaced near side brake light on both her car and mine. Uncanny how they both went at the same time. Deeply unnerving.
- cleared the lawn of dog poo and leaves and mowed it
- cleared almost all the drive of leaves
- washed and ironed the children's school shirts
- cooked tea three times
- put up all the bloody stupid stupid bloody Christmas lights
- provided technical support to my son/his PC
- done the zillion and one other things that are required of today's father/husband/dogsbody

and I still have no idea whether it's finished rendering or not. I just haven't been able to get back to it. Tonight? Hah! I should be so lucky.

Oh ye who are unmarried and childless, heed the plight of one who is neaither and learn...

[Marc Peters]

and I still have no idea whether it's finished rendering or not

I think we can safely assume it has now crashed.