-
Best and fastest render settings for a short 2D flat-style animation
Hi Y’all,
I’ve got some animations that I’ve made that I want to render the fastest way possible. I can surely need some help. All advise is welcome.
What I’ve got:
– 2D flat-style animations that are only 30s to 1 minute long.
– They all need to be 1920x1080px and 25fps.
– They’re not for broadcasting or television. They’re for online usage.What I need:
– Top priority: Render as fast as possible.
Some of them take 1 minute to render, and some of them take 3 minutes to render. I’d like them to render as fast as possible.
– Best quality output!
It does not matter if it’s a MP4 or Quicktime or H264 codec. Rendering a draft isn’t an option.
– Small filesize.
Some of the animations that last less than 1 minute contain a few photo’s throughout the complete animation. These can take up to 1GB for only 1 minute of animation in Quicktime H264 codec. The file sizes doesn’t have to be below the 10mb, but 1GB is a no-go.I’ve been rendering this on my iMac and I want these projects to be rendered on another (Windows based) PC in the near future. I’ve got a powerfull tower with 12 cores and 24GB RAM and some SSD drives (which still need to be installed). It has no graphics card/GPU. I’ve read something about OpenGL rendering, but I can’t find anything about this being really fast. I’m willing to invest in an OK graphics card if this will speed up my renders.
I’m looking for a great preset or rendersettings which will forfill my needs. I’m really looking for a way to render stuff as fast as possible! Again, all advise is welcome! Thank you guys in advance!
Bart
-
1 Reply
-
You can not have fast, best quality and small file unless you spend money on a render farm. If you want small file and good quality you will have to settle for slower render times. You need a codec that allows for 2 pass encoding to get small files and good quality. 1-3 minutes to render is not a long time at all – why would you need faster render times than that anyway?
Tudor \”Ted\” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up