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  AE CS4 – OSX Snow Leopard and render times…

  Posted by Ted Moore on January 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm

  I have a 3:30 project that has about :34 of animations and an imported pre-rendered quicktime, about 3:00 in length…

  I’m using a Mac Pro running 10.6.2 with dual quad-core 2.8 Xeons and 8GB of RAM with 2.25 internal TB of storage along with BlackMagic Extreme HD for Preview… That seems beefy enough to render anything fairly quickly…

  The 3:30 project took almost 4 hours to render… I noticed that the processors were using 6% – 10% of 3GB…

  I have the following settings:

  OpenGL OFF
  Multiprocessing ON
  2GB per CPU
  Faster Rendering (2.37 GB per CPU)
  Internal Scratch Drive (1TB) for caching

  Any suggestions as to why the render times are so long? Do I have a few dip-switches in the wrong positions? Am I the dip-switch…

  Calgon take me away!

  Thanks,
  Ted

  Todd Kopriva replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Todd Kopriva

  January 15, 2010 at 4:51 pm

  Also, you must update to After Effects CS4 (9.0.2) if you’re using Snow Leopard.

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