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and so I switch to AMD dualcore / illustrator image and after effects 7
Hello, I just upgraded my pc to AMD dualcore 2.0ghz with 2gb ram and 256mb nvidia6600 graphic cards on winXP SP2. the reason i upgraded my pc was that it took forever to animate illustrator graphics in After effects, i thought it was my PC. now that i’ve upgraded it, i don’t see much different, video rendering is definitely faster, but now it takes even longer to load illustrator image on the composition, even at a quarter quality. i tried using nucleo and it doesn’t seem to help much. what is the problem here? is it my system? or is it not a good idea to animate illustrator image in AE? the illustrator images that i use are 1000x1000px size, with very simple position and rotation animation, nothing else. I don’t understand.
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Most likely you are using some odd OpenGL settings on your graphics card. This would slow down any animation while using AE’s OpenGL modes for previewing. Other than that I can’t think of anything that would explain the behavior you describe.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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We can chime in on this one. The part of AE that rasterizes Illustrator files is …well….super slow and quite old. Its actually a piece of AE that isn’t really from AE (comes from Photoshop), and is not optimized at all. Unfortunately, the size of the vector images you are using will really amplify this problem (and the use of Nucleo will amplify it even more…). Since the module that rasterizes Illustrator files was meant for a single image in Photoshop (not a sequence of frames like in AE), using vector art in AE can be fairly expensive in time.
I would recommend, if at all possible, to rasterize the image first in something like Photoshop, then import into AE, which can then quickly replicate raster images. This should help things dramatically if your project allows for it.
Steve
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There ya go. Ya learn somethin’ new every day!
Steve 🙂
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