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Best settings for “Make Movie” on Mac Book Pro
Hi,
I’ve been making an animation on my iMac, it’s spec is:OSX 10.5
2.4GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB RAM…using AE6.5
I have been given a Mac Book Pro to borrow to “Make Movie” of the animation. The Mac Book Pro spec is:
OSx 10.5
2.6GHz Intel Core Duo
4GB RAM…and AECS3.
What I would like to know is, how would it be best to set up the preferences in CS3 on the Mac Book Pro so that I can use it to render out the final animation. I imagine that as the spec is slightly better (and there are features in CS3?) That it will be quicker on the Mac Book Pro than mine, is this correct?
It will also free up my iMac so that I can be getting on with other work.
The animation I will be exporting will be at a resolution of 3072 x 768 using the H264 compressor at 75% and 12fps.
Any tips or tricks to speed up the export would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
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the machines are pretty similar, but the since mac book pro has cs3, you may want to enable multiprocessing (preferences>multiprocessing, then check the box for ‘render multiple frames simultaneously’).
if you have a separate external drive for you media, like a firewire drive, then you may also want to enable the disk cache (preferences>memory & cache, set it to use the main hard drive, for your frame size, i might increase the size to 10,000mb as long as your drive is not beyond 60% full). if you only have one drive (the internal system drive) i wouldn’t enable disk cache.
a ntoe on h264… if you have compressor (part of the fcp studio pkg) or another similar software like sorenson squeeze, then i would render out of ae as lossless animation, then take that render to the compressing software to compress to h264. h264 is a codec that uses temporal (or interframe) compression. this type of compression needs to compare groups of consecutive frames together to compress the file. ae cannot compare groups of frames together that have not been rendered, so it cannot do a very good job compressing to codecs like h264. software like compressor or sorenson squeeze can run an analyzing pass then a compression pass to very effectively compress your files and produce much better looking media at smaller file sizes.
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