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After Effects slow in Premiere Pro
Howdy all.
I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions for a problem that I am having. When I create a comp in AE and import it into Premiere Pro, it is EXTREMELY choppy and lagged when I try to playback the comp in the program monitor. My audio runs perfectly, but the screen just freezes for awhile, finally jumps ahead to be in tune with the audio for about a frame and then freezes again. The comp plays fine in AE…just not in PP.
I’ve tried shrinking my program monitor and changing it to draft quality but it has had no impact.
I really need to use AE for some of the things I do, but I hesitate because of this problem.
I am running Vista 64 with 8 gigs of ram on an i7-920 processor. That’s enough to run PP without a hiccup so I’m not sure why it is such a drastic difference when I am running an AE comp. Could it be due to Dynamic Link?
Thanks everyone in advance for your help!
John
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2 Replies
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Do you have a lot of things going on in the comp? If you have a lot of plug-ins, layers, precomps nested in the comp, etc…then you’re asking Premier to do a lot of work that AE is accustom to doing on it’s own time.
If it’s a heavy comp, then I like Render out a low quality file in AE and plug it it into Premier, then when I got everything ready to go I Alt+drop the real deal in just before it’s time to render the final project. See if that idea helps you out at all.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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Hey John.
When using AE comps in Premiere, the reason the comp doesn’t playback smooth to begin with, is that AE is trying to cache whatever it can in Realtime. If you want to see your AE clip in full motion, switch over to AE, do a RAM preview of your comp, then switch back to PR to view in your sequence. It should playback smooth now. As Jeff noted, the heavier your AE comp is with effects and layers, the worse the stuttering will be without caching it in RAM first.
Doing a RAM preview will save you from having to actually pre-render a dedicated movie clip, and then deleting it later. PR will also respect what your comp resolution is set at (ie: Full, Half, Third…), so you can preview your edit that much faster.
Hope this helps.
Joel
salt & lite productions
syracuse, ny
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