• Adobe After Effects

  working with large comps, and shortening ram previews

  Posted by Anonymous on July 27, 2006 at 5:19 am

  I have a large map of a city 4846 x 5638 and as of now its in 1 composition (same size as map) I have to animate cars moving down and I need to be able to zoom in and out of the map view (its all an aerial pov)My problem is even moving a simple image ( a car) down this huge map takes serious resources to preview. Is theire anyway to shorten this time? the map is in .ai format, I tried just cutting out small portions (id only have visible what i needed at a particular moment) and turning to .jpg but that didnt work.

  I would like to work on it as one big comp size and not multiple broken up smaller comps that i’d have to put together later. Any advice?

  Mstleger replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mstleger

  July 27, 2006 at 2:17 pm

  That’s a huge composition.
  You could always lower the resolution to work, then bump it up to render. Try custom resolution setting, render every 10 or 20 pixels in each direction.

  You could work in a smaller composition, one that is sized for your output.

  You could scale down your map and elements in illustrator (to under 1000 pixels in each direction), then animate small in AE, then select continuous rasterization switch for the layers and scale them back up. They will maintain quality because they are vector-based.

  AE tends to freak out a little when it sees giant images. Anything bigger than a 2k film plate tends to slow down my machine at home.

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