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AE render times stink….sheesh….
Ok…so I’m not an AE newbie, but it IS my first time working with HDV footage. I told the client how to send me the green screen footage (keep it on a tripod, light it well, etc.) Well, the footage I got looked handheld at best (I won’t labor you on the sorry GS lighting). So off I go to AE and set up a track for the BG, create a BG, keylight it, do a little roto work, add a dozen or so effects over the four tracks and render the 50 second clip out. AE is telling me that it’s going to take some 9 hours to render it out!…and that’s on Gridiron time.
So the question I have is…with HDV are we back where we were in 2001 with SD? I remember those all-night render sessions on an uneffected SD timeline and unless I’m missing something it’s back to the ‘good-old days’ of all-night renders.
pffft…..at least they’re paying for the job. Ok, I’m done ranting if someone can bring me back to earth.
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yeah, hd has set the effects computing world back a ways.. but we’re probably only about 2 years away from a 32-core machine sporting 256gb of ram 🙂
but if you can get your hdv to an uncompressed (or un-temporally-compressed) format, like lossless animation or an image sequence, your ae work will go faster. you’ll just eat up more disk space.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Render times in HD are a headache, but you can do yourself a favor by not working with the HDV encoded footage in the timeline. Transcode to something like Photo JPEG and you should experience a noticeable speed up with renders. It will always take longer to render in HD just because of the exponential increase in number of pixels, but if you use an intraframe compression codec in the timeline at least AE won’t have to work as hard to figure out what each frame is supposed to look like…
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA
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