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3D animation takes a long long time?
Hi,
I am wondering about this animation I am trying to render in
AE. I have 5 3D layers each 1440×939(from Photoshop) and I am
trying to render a camera fly through.The camera has depth of field turned on(it is the 35mm default
selection)There is one point light with all layers casting and accepting
shadows.To render this out uncompressed it is taking 2hours. Does this
sound right? I can do something similar in Cinema 4D and have
it render in much less time(didn’t time it).Are there any tricks to using 3D in AE?
Thanks for any and all suggestions.
Mark
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6 Replies
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Oh yeah, I am using AE7.0 with 2GB RAM and a 3.6GHz P4.
Windowx XP.Thanks
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make sure your layers are not bigger than they need to be, turn off unseen shadows, limit shadow resolution in the comp settings. I find AE faster than C4D with ray tracing and antiailias set hi.
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Hi Mark,
Sorry but no can do. You are using all the necessary attributes for a slow render. (3D layers, DOF, Light, Large footage…)
If you had a dual system, I would have recommended “Nucleo”. If you have one or several systems available, you could try network rendering.Salut,
Serge“InvigoMany” available here:
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No. Unlike in C4D, AE’s 3D isn’t multithreaded and thus not very fast (in addition to other things) if you can forego DOF, you will see considerable speedups, but it sound’s like it isn’t an option. Terrible to say this on an AE forum: If you already have a 3D program and think baking out your AE fooatga as textures isn’t too much trouble, then take this road whenever you can.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Hi,
I’m replying because I’m currently rendering a 3D scene, and each frame is taking about 4 minutes (on an old machine).
While depth of field and motion blur will increase the time of your render, there seems to be a massive render hit for each light you add. Of course, if you use several lights then your scene can look better, but that’s the deal. My composition has 7 lights in it, turning them on and off in different combinations gives render times from less than 20 seconds up to 4 minutes with all the bells and whistles. I should add that I’m also using Knoll Light Factory Spectacular, which is the slowest plug-in I’ve ever come across.But hey- I even have time to reminisce. When I was playing around on my Amiga 15 years ago it could take an overnight render just to get one frame…
-Chris
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Wow,
I thought I was doing something strange. A quick glance
and it seems like AE, working with flat layers, should
be faster. I guess it just makes me appreciate C4D even
more.Thanks for the help and sympathy. Oh well… more time
to drink coffee and read manuals.Mark
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