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How long does it take to send 1000 invitations?
Azayemna spends about 4 seconds of machine time on each guest when the invitation runs 3 seconds, so a send to a thousand guests takes about an hour. That figure comes from timing a real render, and it is an estimate rather than a promise. A longer card takes proportionally longer, because every frame of the card is photographed again for every guest.
Where does the time for one guest go?
About 3 seconds draw the frames and about one encodes the video.
The browser that draws them opens once for the whole queue rather than once for each guest, and opening it costs about 6 seconds paid a single time. That is why a large send is no slower per guest than a small one.
| Guests | Machine time |
|---|---|
| 100 guests | about 7 minutes |
| 500 guests | about 34 minutes |
| 1,000 guests | about 67 minutes |
On a card that runs 3 seconds. Measured warm, which is what a real send is.
What makes a send take longer?
The length of the card. A card that runs six seconds takes about twice as long to send as one that runs three, because twice as many frames are photographed for every guest.
Azayemna caps an arrival at 12 seconds, and that cap is there for this reason and no other.
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What makes a send finish sooner?
Leaving the names off. A send with no names is one render for the whole event, so it finishes in seconds however long the guest list is.
Two guests who share a first name also share a render, so a real Gulf list of five hundred people is far fewer than five hundred videos.
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Is the estimate a promise?
No, it is an estimate. A send shares the machine with other events in the queue, so a busy evening runs slower than a quiet morning.
Azayemna shows the count climbing on the host's own page while the send runs, so the real progress is in front of her rather than guessed at.
Why say the wait instead of charging for it?
Azayemna renders on a machine with a flat monthly cost, so a long queue and a short queue cost the same. There is nothing to bill, and an estimate is more use to a host than a fee.
The send page shows the estimate before the send starts, with the guest count and the card length it was worked out from.