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3d raytrace taking FOREVER TO RENDER
I really don’t understand why 3d ray trace is taking so long to render. I have a six second composition 19 20 x 10 80 at 29.97 and it’s taking almost 20 minutes to render. It’s just one line of text that’s three words. There are two lights no shadows and a very simple camera pan left to right. There’s one shape layer in the composition that’s a star and that’s it.
I’m running windows 10 I’ve got 64 gigs ram at ddr4, my processor is an Intel i7 5930 K at 3.5 GHz. What graphics card is GeForce GTX 980.
Am I missing something as to why this would take so long? Is there a setting I’ve got wrong maybe???
Thanks.
Kevin Gonzales
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Cool and thanks. I thought I was about to go crazy. So the 4d light renders faster??
Kevin Gonzales
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The ray-traced renderer should be able to use that card to make it faster (if you’re using the current version of AE – exactly what version number are you running?)
In your preferences, make sure you check the box to use unsupported cards to accelerate the ray-traced renderer (it’s in the Previews section under GPU Information). Also, if you’re not using a pretty recent update to CC 2015, it won’t be able to use that class of card to accelerate it.
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That being said, Dave is right; Adobe has pretty much abandoned the ray-traced renderer in favor of the much more powerful C4D Lite option. 🙂
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I would only add to this thread that ray-tracing in general is much, much slower than you are used to with Ae/2.5D. C4D may be faster than Ae’s Ray-Tracing Renderer, but it’s not as fast as simple 2.5D animation, or GPU-based 3D like Video Copilot’s Element 3D or Mettle’s ShapeShifter Ae.
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How Much RAM are your Adobe programs allowed to access.
64 GB will do no good if the program is set to use 2 GB.
You should also consider running a hardware monitor while rendering to help spot
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