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  • Render que set-up for a large amount of videos. Ray tracing required.

    Posted by Daniel Poffley on March 19, 2015 at 11:13 am

    Dear After Effects legends,

    I have been working on a project for a little while but I’ve run into a problem I am not sure how overcome regarding rendering a large collection of videos.

    Firstly, I’ve come up with a template where a logo is created generated as a 3d object (extruded vector) then lights, shadows and cameras are applied. There is a master comp for the logo and four other comps for different camera angles (shot 1, shot 2 etc).

    The idea is to set up a render que for all four comps for logo A, then change to logo B and send the 4 comps to the que again, then change to logo C and so on.

    The problem is I need to have ray tracing set to 12-16 in order for the shadows to not look pixelated. If I send everything to Adobe Media Encoder, it all queues up perfectly but the render is so noisy it is unusable. If I use the render que in After Effects the results are perfect but whatever logo was last in the Master comp will be what is rendered into every video. I could render the four comps, then change the logo and render again but this will take a long time. I’m looking for a solution I can set up once and leave it running for a few days over a weekend.

    Thanks for any help can offer.

    Dan

    Daniel Poffley replied 11 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    March 19, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    I’d set up each of the four logo options and save them as four separate projects.

    Then I’d create a new project, import all four logo option projects, queue up all the render comps, and let her rip.

    Walter Soyka
    Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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  • Daniel Poffley

    March 19, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    Brilliant! Thank you very much for your fast reply. This has saved me quite a bit of time.

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