And last night my laptop crashed or rebooted part way through a really long render.
My laptop is not the most powerful (i3, 4GB RAM), so I know I can improve render times there, but a new laptop is not something I can afford right now.
So, are there strategies I could adopt to help reduce final render times?
For example, would it help to render different segments projects, with their own cuts, transitions, subtitles, PiPs, overlays, and so on, to intermediate video files, and then stitch these intermediate videos together in a final project along with titles, segment transitions, and so on?
Also I’ve noticed that sometimes when I go to Produce the hardware acceleration is enabled, and sometimes it’s greyed out. I have not been able to work out why this is, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference to final render times.