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After Effects Rendering
I am new to After Effects and I am having trouble with exporting my footage from the render cue. I have animations that last about 4 minutes long or so and it seems to be taking for ever for the render to complete. The animation is 2D images of houses set in 3D space and animating the camera to fly through them.
I am using A Mac G5 2×2.66 GHZ Dual Core intel Xeon with 4GB 667 MHz DDr3 FB-DIMM
is there anything I could do to speed up the rendering time, and would compressing the file help. Actually I have tried many different compression settings but the time does not shorten any. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Shannon Wilkerson -
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It just takes time for things to render. Some effects are render heavy, such as match grain and fractal noise, and compositions with multiple video layers always take longer. It’s just a case of time management – start rendering before you head out for lunch, or, if you have lots to render, do it overnight.
If you want to keep working while you render, you could search for a scritp I’ve seen somewhere that allows you to render in the background.
Simon Bonner
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if you have cs3, you can enable multiprocessing (if you haven’t already).
choose after effects>preferences>multiprocessing from the menu bar. check the option for ‘render multiple frames simultaneously’. in the text bellow that, ae should state that ‘1 additional processor will be used”. if not, we can tweak some memory and cache settings to get it use both cores.
another thing that can help performance is having you media (footage, renders, images, audio) on a separate drive and drive controller than you disk cache. this can be as easy as having a firewire drive to place all your footage, renders, images and audio and set the disk cache to use the boot drive. by separating those you will lessen the chance of data bottlenecking as ae is trying to render and read cached frames while rendering and writing the rendered file.
but as simon points out, rendering can take a long time. and 3d is one of those processor intensive renders.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
That helped out a lot guys thanks so much. I did not enable multi processing and I found out about Grid Iron Nucleo pro. I have it running in the background and now things are running more smoothly. Thanks for the advice!
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Shannon Wilkerson
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That helped out a lot guys thanks so much. I did not enable multi processing and I found out about Grid Iron Nucleo pro. I have it running in the background and now things are running more smoothly. Thanks for the advice!
LOVE THAT COW!
Shannon Wilkerson
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