2 minutes to render, 30 minutes to Finalize?

[Mark]

I would open up the render details while it is rendering…Also I would open up the Task Manager on my PC to see what my PC is doing…I am guessing there must be a Mac equivalent to the Task Manager ???

Without more details, it is impossible to say what is going…Oh yeah, and what are you rendering to ???? Internal Raid ??? External drive ??? Quicktime ??? what Codec ???? See what I mean…more details please 🙂

Best regards

Mark

Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports

[Kevin Camp]

[mark harvey] “I am guessing there must be a Mac equivalent to the Task Manager”

it’s the activity monitor (applications>utilities)… it may show you what’s holding up the process.

but mark’s right we would need a bit more info.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[David Bogie]

Set an outpoint for the work are at the halfway point. Use work area for the render settings and see if that renders to completion.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Jeremy Rowell]

Thanks for the help. I’ve tried rendering to my “Huge” SCSI raid my internal raid and my mac drive. All of my other projects render flawlessly, so I’m ruling out a hard drive issue. I’m rendering out as a QT animation (which I have to convert to AVI in QT PRO, but that another story) There is no audio.
There are 31 layers. 18 are text, 11 are a logo, 1 is a psd and 1 a jpg bkg that I move around. No crazy effects, just animating the motion and opacity. Rendering half the comp yields the same result… a quick render with a long wait for it to finalize (if it does at all).

I can’t think of anything else… let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks again for taking the time to help.

Jeremy

[Kevin Camp]

bogie’s idea is a pretty good one, it would determine if there is something weird going on at the end of the comp, or if it is the whole comp that is a problem…

you said your other comps render fine… are they the same comp size, or are they more ‘normal’ specs?

you might try rendering with ‘render multiple frames simultaneously’ disabled in preferences>multiprocessing to determine if this is a multiprocessing bug.

you could also try setting the secret pref (hold the shift key and select preferences>[any pref] and set the purge every xx frames to the second to the last frame in the comp. this would just see if there was some problem with ae clearing the cache and that was what was causing the delay… kind of a reach…

i guess you could also try disabling the disk cache (preferences>memory & cache) and maybe lowering the max ram cache setting.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jeremy Rowell]

Good ideas…
I have made it purge every 10 frames, lowered the max ram and disabled disk cache. No luck.
I have other projects that render this comp size out without issue, it just seems to be this project.
Also, I played around and it seems that it does not matter if I render 10 seconds or 10 frames… it still takes 30 minutes to finalize. The info pain does not give any information when it’s in the stage. I’m not sure what processes take place when it’s being finalized, but this project no likey that phase.

Anyone know a way to take a comp in a project and make it a new project, with all files and all attributes?

[Kevin Camp]

you can select the comp you want to keep in the project window, then choose file>reduce project. it will remove all comps, footage and layers that are not used by that comp (including pieces used in nested comps within that project).

you can then save that project, create a new project and import that previous project to bring in that comp and all its components….

you might also try pulling the folder that contains the ae prefs…

quit ae, then go to users/[username]/library/preferences/adobe/after effects and pull the folder called ‘8.0’ to the desktop, then start ae (all those files will be recreated). since you’re not seeing problems with other comps, i don’t know if it will help at all, but it’s easy to try and if it doesn’t work, quit ae and drag the ‘8.0’ folder that you have on the desktop back into the folder where it came from to restore all your settings.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Jeremy Rowell]

Thanks for that tip.

and to add another twist, I tried to render a Jpeg still of my Ribbon to preview. It took nearly 10 minute! in any other comp it would only take 3-4 seconds.