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3rd day of rendering
I have a 3 minute clip that I roto brushed (CS5) the actors pants and applied a smart blur effect to the selected area. The area is in every frame. I have a 27″ iMac 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 (quad core) processor with 8MB level 3 cache that supports Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost, an ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, and 8 GB of internal memory. The mask rendered relatively quickly (less than 2 hours), but the Composition has been running continuously for 3 days now. Is there some trick, After Effects option or editing practice that can lessen the rendering time?
jmf
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26 Replies
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Would 16 GB of memory be enough?
Where do I turn off Open GL and multiprocessing?
I do have version 10.
jmf
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Would it be okay to interrupt the rendering process to change the preference settings while leaving AE open and then continue rendering by hitting the space bar in AE?
jmf
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How do you twirl down the render process button to see progress?
jmf
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I guess I dropped my veil. The timeline shows the current segment progress with a red line and the overall with brackets. There is about 15 seconds left. I thought maybe I was missing something like a digital progress time.
jmf
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how did you go about starting the render?
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
I imported a quicktime file, created a layer, used roto brush to create a selection in each frame, applied the smart blur, rendered the mask, put the layer in the composition, adjusted transparency, and began rendering the composition.
jmf
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[jack fox] “and began rendering the composition.”
that’s the part i was curious about… did you choose composition>add to render queue (or ‘make movie’), or did you choose file>export?
i was curious because either of those ways should show a progress bar for your render, and the render queue method should also show render progress time elapsed and estimated completion time…
you mentioned only seeing the timeline and what sounded like the current time indicator (the red line)… so i was just curious how you began the render process.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Used the composition>add to render queue, and no render progress time elapsed or estimated completion time.
jmf
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This may be obvious but did you hit start? I have walked away only to come back with out ever hitting that button
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Here is a screen shot of the timeline. The progress was stopped while I took the screen shot, but prior to that and after there is an orange line sweeping (just above the timeline) and the video is moving frame by frame in super slow motion. Before stopping the render for the screen shot, the brackets were at 3:20 and now are at 2:39 after I hit the space bar.
jmf
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