// BLOG

Cutting a 4K HDR render from 593 to 166 seconds by doing less work

A ten-minute film took 40 minutes to render, and everyone (including the docs) assumed the encoder was the problem. It wasn't. Replaying decode graphs into a discard sink, converting frames before duplicating them, blurring fewer pixels, and the read-ahead that made an NVIDIA T1000 18% slower.