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After Effects Rendering Times Seem Very Slow
Hey all, I’m a newbie to AE – working on my first AE project using a template I purchased online – so I’ll do my best to explain the project and issue. I typically used Apple Motion and never encountered the render times that I am getting in AE
First, Macbook Pro i7, 4cores 8GB of RAM
Project is a minute long, contains 6 video drop zones which I am using Quicktime files using the ProRes 422 codec. I used the prerendered project in the purchased template as well.
It is a very graphic intensive project with 3D animations, moves, reflections…the works. I’m trying to render at 1280×720, even smaller sizes choke the system.
I’ve hit the forums and have turned on Render Multiple Frames Simul., made 6.5 GB RAM available to AE and gave 2GB RAM allocation per background CPU.
Each time I try and render it says it is going to take usually over an hour for this 1 minute of footage. Is this normal? Can I speed this up at all? I need to be able to review it if I have to make changes and losing my computer for an hour or more at a time is difficult.
I’ll keep poking around, but if anyone can help out I’d love to hear feedback.
Thanks in advance
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Depending on layers, effects, cameras & motion blur 1 hour might not be out of line. For example I created some opens (10 seconds) with faux reflections, cameras, lights, particles and effects-total of around 60 layers and the average render time was 38 minutes.
On an 8gig(6.5 available) system with 4 cores at best you are only going to be using 2 cores at 2gig allocation. You might want to drop the allocation to 1gig so you can use all your cores and leave a little more for the OS.
If you are working on setting up your project, I would render at draft quality and turn on Draft 3d(doesn’t render lights, motion blur). That might save your time during your previews.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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OK, I was hoping that it might render more quickly as I noticed that Apple Motion Projects seem to be render quickly and that some settings changes might just be in effect. I guess this kind of intensive project in AE is just going to require long render times.
Shoot.
Is AE just a more powerful tool than Motion?
I’ll try the recommendations on the draft mode to see if I can spit one out more quickly.
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Im running a 4gb windows 8, 64 bit 1tb laptop, brand new in january. Im trying to render 2 and a half minutes of a video at 720p with some audio reacting spectrum bars and a small amount of blurry particles from Trapcode Particular, only about 20 particles p/sec and its telling me its going to take 3 days. I have enabled multiprocessing leaving 0.75gb ram for bg apps, all 4 cores runnin in AE. Any pointers to reduce this huge rendering time?
Thanks
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Sorry i have 8gb ram and quad core and AMD radeon graphics. I am still rendering these particles after 20 hours and its saying its going to be another 17 hours! For only 2 and a half minutes! Im going crazy lol
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