Thanks for forwarding the license number. My colleague Peter has sent you instructions on how to extend your Trial period.

Now, regarding the render issue, we've had a look at your scene.
SCENE STATISTICSThe scene in Build mode consists of about 3.7 million 3D points (calculated in 4 star quality).
It contains 4 reflection planes in the
Reflection effect, and 5
Spotlights are assigned to the
Global Illumination effect.
When you render a clip in 5-star quality, Lumion renders the scene 16 times in 16 sub-frames that are blended as a single frame.
1) Each
Spotlight that is assigned to the
Global Illumination effect means that the entire scene has to be rendered once more per frame. As there's 5 of those, it means the scene has to be rendered 5 times extra per frame.
2) Every time a reflection plane is added in the
Reflection effect, the entire scene has to be rendered once more (if there are
Spotlights assigned to the
Global Illumination effect they also have to be mirrored which will double the impact).
RENDER LOADThe result is that if there are 5
Spotlights assigned to the
Global Illumination effect, and 4 reflection planes you end up with the following 3D Points that have to be rendered every frame:
3.7 million
3D Points x (5
Spotlights + 4 reflection planes + 4 reflection planes x 5
Spotlights) x 16 sub-frames =
1.7 billion 3D Points per frameThat's a lot of 3D Points, even for a GTX 1070.
In addition, you're also rendering the video in 2560x1440 which means that 3,686,400 pixels have to be calculated 464 times per frame.
You've also turned on
Super resolution shadows and
SpeedRay Reflections which add to the total render time (but not much).
And lastly, the clip is 2:21 long, so depending on your "Frames per second" setting it may take a very long time to complete it (200 FPS will take 4 times as long as 25 FPS for example).
RESULTS BASED ON A GTX 760- If I turn off all of the Movie effects, it takes about 12 seconds per frame to render a 1920x1080 movie.
- If I switch to 2560x1440 it takes 22 seconds per frame.
- If I then switch on all effects apart from the Reflection effect it takes 28 seconds per frame.
- If I also switch on the Reflection effect, it takes 122 seconds per frame.
CONCLUSIONAs you can see, it's a cumulative penalty on renderings that's resulting in longer render times - depending on what sort of bells and whistles you want.
RECOMMENDATIONIn summary, you should consider reducing one or more of the factors above if you want to reduce the total render time.
Let us know if we can help you with anything else.
