Vance Bowman wrote:By "all green tools" do you mean creator nodes and loaders?
I would love for there to be some basic tips listed somewhere for optimizing and speeding up renders. Being completely new to this, I don't even know where to start.
The main thing is understanding how Fusion renders. Knowing how the cache and ROIDS works will, as Alexander discovered, give you a huge performance boost; it's probably the best thing you can do. There's a lot of little things that matter for some tools and certain combination of settings, but they're really minor and don't matter as often. And if you're really interested in performance, you write your own fuses and plugins. You can make things a lot faster if you really want to.
I used to maintain a list of tips for Fusion. Many of them are available in the console, just type "tip". Or you can sign yourself up to my mailing list.