digieffects freeform AE

[David Johnson]

Although I’ve used the version of FreeForm that the DigiEffects plugin is derived from, I haven’t used the DigiEffects version, but can still tell you this …

As with most plugins that allow 3D mesh warping in AE, the FreeForm I’ve used was fairly render intensive. At the same time, I’m not sure I’d qualify a render that’s 15 hours without even having that type of plugin in use as “normal” (although it certainly can be in some cases). So, without knowing how complex and big your project is, what format(s) and codec(s) your working with, how powerful your machine is, etc., etc., it’ll be impossible for anyone to help you.

That includes DigiEffects support, which might be a better place to start … unless something has changed in the past year or so, they’re among the most customer-friendly of the many AE plugin developers.

[Mathew Lisett]

its a multi layer project with several other plug ins used. its got about 1hr 30 footage

the system is a 8gb ddr2 memory q6600 cpu watercooled on windows 7 x64 with cs5

with the digi effects plugn, what would be the normal render time for such length, becuase to me it jumping from 15 hours to over 500 hours just by selectign that plugin seesm to tell me theres a specific bit of hardware im needing to accelerate the process if cuda has been stated to never be added to work within after effects.

[Walter Soyka]

[mathew lisett] “becuase to me it jumping from 15 hours to over 500 hours just by selectign that plugin seesm to tell me theres a specific bit of hardware im needing to accelerate the process”

Not necessarily. Like David said, 3D mesh warping is really render intensive. 500 hours of render time is only 11 seconds per frame over 90 minutes.

That said, you might be able to speed things up. If you have multiprocessing on, it may be working against you here because of your relatively low amount of RAM.

Walter Soyka
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

You could go on a short holiday with that kinda time. Look into pre-rendering the layers involved including the Freeform-ed Layers.

HTH
RoRK

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[Chris Bobotis]

Hi Mathew,

Digieffects FreeForm is very render intensive but then again so is any real 3D effect when pushed hard. That said, we (Mettle, creators of Digieffects FreeForm) are currently in Beta with FreeForm Pro. FreeForm Pro is much , much faster and much more feature rich. It is hardware accelerated so it can be up to 20x (or more) faster depending on your system set up and what you are doing with it.

The speed factor alone opens up creative possibilities, let alone the new feature set 🙂 Can’t wait to show you.

Cheers,
Chris
mettle.com

Cheers,
Chris
mettle.com

[Walter Soyka]

[Chris Bobotis] “It is hardware accelerated so it can be up to 20x (or more) faster depending on your system set up and what you are doing with it”

Chris, you are such a tease! I am really looking forward to the release.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Mathew Lisett]

now since the filter /plugin is in afterf efects and cuda feature on cards helps the process dramatically, why oh why is adobe refusing to budge enableing cuda as the feature on after effects? it just seems wrong