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Help with rendering!!!
Hi I am having problems with rendering! I’m not sure what to do. My project is an after effect animation of a photoshop scene I have made of a house. The shot so far is only zooming into the house from outside(as if accross the street I guess) and you can see in the window to the inner house and eventually you zoom all the way in. Both the inner and outer layers are very hi res. The inner is 3924×2024 and the outer house is less but that doesn’t seem to be a problem. (I want it to seem a bit blurry until you get inside the house). I just want to make clear that this isn’t a drawing animation nor is it real footage, it has tons of detail.
First of all, if any one can tell me why there is an error when rendering that says “not enough disk space”. But I have 100gig! How do I fix this problem?
Ok sorry so long..but there is more to be said. So then I was trying to figure out this problem by trying several things. I reduced the res size to half, third,quarter… half was still to big (and I am only 30 sec into what would be a 3 min project)and quarter res would work but looked pretty shitty. I got the half or was it the third to work on an earlier test run and it looked great so I know it should be possible. So then I thought I was so smart and rendered it into three pieces at half res and then brought the files into premiere and linen them up with the sound seperate. Then I rendered that to 720×480, 920×518, 1000×564 in all sorts of various compression and no compression and DV AVI and AVI and 16:9 verse 4:3. Now I thought that it was getting better but the best by far was the Microsoft AVI (not DV AvI) with no compression and 720×480 or 920×518. BUT that was wrong because it didn’t come out widescreen (like it was made to be). The real kicker was that when I chose widescreen settings it came up squished and when I choose the 4:3 it came out extra wide!!!!!!!!!
One last thing that boggles my mind is that i have tried to burn it to DVD in various programs and they have all come out in worse than ever resolution. In conclusion, I am perplexed by the problem that I seem to need to render this thing HUGE in order for it to look as good as the original photshop file looks but my computer won’t allow me to render it that big and even if it did, Encore won’t allow it and neither will any of the other DVD creating software i have found. If anyone has some help for me that would be great. I have never used this software before so some of these answers mights seem obvious to a professional. -
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(I’m assuming you’re in North America, so you use the NTSC television standard)
Try searching the COW posts for “secret” for a tip that might help your render.
The AE comp that you render should be 720×480 regardless of the source footage sizes. There’s no need to render at all those odd sizes.
If you want a 16:9 DVD, your AE comp should be set to the “DV widescreen” preset. It may look odd on your computer, but fine on TV: search the AE help for “pixel aspect ratio correction”.
When you render out of AE, render to 720×480. If you need the AVI format for Encore, you might have to render (from AE) uncompressed for high quality before compressing to MPEG-2 (for DVD) in another app.
In your DVD-authoring app, flag the clip as 16:9 or widescreen. You’ll probably also have to set a “letterbox” switch there somewhere.
Let us know …
Steve
P.S. the COW likes to be cuss-free … alternate adjectives appreciated. 🙂 -
Ok that was what I hoping for, a simple obvious answer! I was only using those large files sizes because I thought that would improve the quality and allow me to possibly view it on a large screen.
I started in 720×480 size in AE and then rendered it and then burned it to dvd to see the quality and it was great! (better before I went to Dvd though). I also did the secret thing and adjusted the purge RAM at 5 frames, but what do the other two boxes mean? Now I have one more question. When I realized I needed to resize the comp in AE I tried grabbing all the layers and resizing them smaller all at once but that didn’t work. They scaled down weird were some flipped over and were no longer alined. Is there an easy way to size down the entire project without rewriting the motion tween for each indiviual? Otherwise that would take while to redo.
Also I am still getting the “not enough disk space error”..
Also will this size look good on a very large tv or projected on to a large screen? Thanks for your help, rusty -
1. I never use the other two boxes in the secret prefs. I fear their power. 🙂
2. to resize a bunch of stuff, first save the project under an incremental new name such as project 02.aep (and stay in that habit) then try selecting all the layers you want to shrink, and hit layer>precompose. Then you shrink that layer, which is now a comp within a comp. Another way is to parent all thos layers to a null layer then shrink the null.
3. Not sure about the disk space error, if you do in fact have enough space to render the piece to the projected size indicated in the ongoing render details.
4. You have no choice for the size. DVD is 720×480. That’s it until they start shipping HD DVDs and players.
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Thanks for the help!
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