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After Effect 7 Speed
Hi,
well after pushing Motion to the Limit I did the Plunge on getting AE7.
It takes a bit getting used to the Interface.
But my main concern is the speed. Now is AE7 realtime compatible or is there something wrong with the system or settings?Its installed on a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0GHz, 4.5GB RAM and a ATi X800 card.
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4 Replies
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It’s not at all like Motion in that regard. If You came to AE to get more layers and effects playing in realtime you won’t find it. AE’s strength over motion is in things like masks and expressions and larger (more layers) projects, as well as project management.
I’d have to say that you might of done better to get Shake at this point, but that’s helping you now.
In AE you won’t be able to take a video file, drop it in a comp, press play and have it play at the full frame rate. It just don’t work that way. Maybe, please maybe, it will change in the next version. And if you add plug-ins or transform it in any way it will go even slower.
TonyTony
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No, it’s not realtime compatible, but by using RAM preview, it will play back footage at the proper frame rate.
We just have to wait for everything to render. Everything, even if you’ve done nothing to the footage.It’s the price we pay for flexibility and virtually unlimited layers.
If you want renders to go faster, check out Nucleo. It’s good.
And don’t use the spacebar. Use RAM preview. Check the help for that if you haven’t already.
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Thanks for the imput,
but I also noticed that AE7 runs much faster in the Tutorials from Andrew Kramer.
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Well, I can’t speak for Andrew, but if tutorials accurately reflected the speed at which AE runs, they’d be really boring and nobody would watch them.
It’s like cooking shows, where you set up the dish, pop it in the oven, then pull it out fully baked after the commercial — there was another one sitting in the oven, pre-made. In the case of tutorials, we often have to speed up things and cut out things in order to get through the tutorial. The purpose is to show techniques, not rendering.
.. not speaking for Andrew, of course, but that’s the way tutorials have to be made, in my opinion.
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