My laptop couldn’t handle lighting the scene, and the PC in my house couldn’t handle rendering so I went to Uni to use the computers there to render it after getting an extension.
I had some issues with the rendering, as it broke at one point and kept rendering the same scene over and over no matter what I changed so I restarted the computer and it seemed to fix it, though I’m still not sure what was going on there. I also failed to realise I had to increase the size of the camera cuts section as well as the length, or it would only render the parts in the camera cuts. So I had to do some last-minute panic rendering as I went to make my cinematic and realised only half the shot had been rendered for 3 shots.
I followed the instructions in this video to try and make sure my renders looked as good as I could get them to.