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  Rendering Woes.. help please

  Posted by Jeffczyz on December 28, 2006 at 11:32 pm

  I know I must be missing something in this rendering workflow, so please, point me in the right direction.

  I have a MAIN comp. Inside that comp are nested comps 1-7. Those comps are made up up yet another comp… so I’m 3 levels deep.

  I’ve tried pre-rendering the comps at levels 2 & 3, however, when I do that, I lose my 3d Effects in my main comp. I’m beginning to have a tough time stepping through the timeline to see my cmaera motion because everything is pretty slow. IN addition, when I render the entire movie, it’s going to take 70+ hours. (keep in mind that this is a 25 minute movie).

  Can someone recommend the best workflow with this, especially with rendering? I’ve converted my pre-comps to proxies, but need some pointed on how to best render this.

  THanks

  Jeffczyz replied 19 years, 4 months ago 12,607 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeffczyz

  December 30, 2006 at 5:32 pm

  Dave,

  Thanks for the input. I’ll have to revisit my setup. The problem I’m having is that my lower nested precomps are used in 3D comps. I’ve basically taken Andrew Kramer’s 3D reflection tutorial and used that to create a room full of videos with reflections. If I pre-render those, I lose the 3d aspect in the higher comps. However, I will try and render the original clips.

  The other thing I’m battling with is the my original clips are 30 seconds and I’ve time -remapped and looped them for the duration of the 25 minutes. Even though each one isn’t really seen the entire time, I thought it would be easier to not render them since AE would only be rendering what’s in frame.(I think that’s the way it works) however, I’m seeing that it needs to interpret everything in all comps and then determine what’s in frame.. whew….

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