HDV rendering on Macbook Pro

Hello all,
I am rendering 20 minutes of HDV (shot by Canon HV30) on Macbook Pro, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. The videos are on Laice 1 TB connected with FW800.
What's the average or expected rendering time for such a file? is there a way to edit in lower res and then render?
- I've also tried to use smoothcam - does it affect rendering time?

For what you are describing, I would probably expect anywhere between 20 to 40 minutes or so, but I can't give you a hard figure, there are too many variables. Many things affect render times, including what effects are being used (such as smoothcam).

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