Benchmarks for an After Effects filter? Magic Bullet?

[krackato]

Hi all,

I'm really interested in getting some benchmarks for an After Effects plugin called Magic Bullet. You can get more info here:

Magic Bullet

Basically it gives video a filmlook. The thing is, it's a very intensive program that takes up to 5 seconds a frame (depending on the settings). There's 30 frames a second in video. So a 10 minute clip (which is pretty short actually) would take 10 minutes x 60 seconds x 30fps x 5 seconds = 90,000 seconds which equal about 25 hours. And I know a lot of guys (myself included) on videos lasting 2 hours or more which would take an obscene amount of time (like 2 weeks of straight processing).

There's also a fully working demo on that site that displays an image over the final video, but it's probably good for beta testing. If anyone has a couple of machines (like an Athlon 3200+ and a Pentium 3.2 or even an Opteron or Athlon 64 FX) it'd be awesome to get some comparative benchmarks. Obviously all the setting would have to be the same and the video file would have to be the same to have reliable benchmarks.

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas or a link to benchmarks, that'd be awesome.

 

[krackato]

Well, just thinking about it, it seems that the easiest thing to do woud be to have several people with fast systems try to run the same video through the program and report with results. I'm using After Effects 5.5. Thank you to anyone who helps me out with this.

You can download the demo here: Magic Bullet Demo

You can download the sample video here: 13 second video clip

And you can download the After Effects Project file here:
Magic Bullet After Effects Project File

If you open the project folder it'll say that the video clip is missing. Just double click the video-01.mov file in the upper left window and relink it to whereever you saved the sample video.

That should do it. Now just click Composition>Make Movie. Name your output file (I'm just keeping mine as Comp1.avi), leave the output module as Lossless, and click render. Make sure that nothing processor intensive is running (although I doubt AIM is going to get in the way) and when it's done it should tell you how long it took.

On my XP 1700+ with 512mb of PC2100 ram, the 13 second clip took 18 minutes 3 seconds. That works out to about 1 minute 22 seconds per second of video. And I only used 2 out of the 5 filters Magic Bullet offers.