So encoding with the HAPQ or Animation codec seems to take quite a while. Since I see that its mostly happening on the GPU was wondering if TouchDesigner is able to take advantage of multiple GPU workstations?
Also is there any way to view encoding progress, perhaps thru the console or?
HAPQ encoding in TD is insanely fast - maybe check that you have all your TD settings correct. For instance if you turn the real-time flag off and disable v-sync, TD renders as fast as your hardware can handle instead of at 60 FPS.
I recommend this Batch Converter which takes care of all that for you, including progress bars:
Yes, if your Hap encoding is slow then your bottleneck is likely the harddrive write speed. There is an ‘encode test mode’ parameter on the Movie File Out TOP you can turn on. This does all of the encoding work, but then discards the results. It’s a good way to see how fast something encodes when you remove the drive write speed from the equation.