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Draw with Lights faster (cont’d)
this is the continuation of the old thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=887075
i repeat the latest issue:
Thanks for the great advice, and sorry for this incredibly late reply (august was vacation-time, finally)i experimented around with the echo, and now i got quite the result that i wanted, perfect.
the only problem is the incredibly large rendering effort…footage was 220 sec, echo amount 5000.
rendering starts quickly, and gets slow soon 😉
after 8 hours, about 33% was finished, and now it took 40sec for EACH FRAME!since this was with DV footage, and I want to switch to HD material later, i am looking for a
faster solution… any ideas ?Thanks,
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If I understand your problem, here’s what I’d recommend at this time:
1. track the light source in AE
2. create a solid, and apply Trapcode’s particular. If you don’t have it, you need to buy it.
3. in the timeline, make the X,Y position of the Particular emitter visible, alt(opt)-click on the stopwatch for the emitter position, and pickwhip from it to the tracked position of the light source. You may need to apply the track to a null first, depending on your version of AE. The goal here is to make the emitter follow the motion of the tracked light source.
4. Set particular thusly: emitter 150 particles/sec (later, adjust this to smooth out the line); particle life 0.1, size 0.0; aux system from main, 1 particle/sec, long life (depends on your comp).The goal is to let particular create your line. It renders much faster than echo. Everything does. :).
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collect some old computers and make your own render farm
https://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/11/0,1425,i=111648,00.gif
https://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1815797,00.asp
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Geesh, that’s what I said in the first place 😉
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That’s where I got the idea. 😉
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Agreed – I usually just use 2 machines in production, the superfast one to work on, and another (connected with GigaBit and VNC) to render. I do have 8 old boxes set up with the render engine, although I have to plan ahead on what I’m going to put on it, since a lot of plugins aren’t licensed for multiple machines (and… don’t work). All 10 (I use an old mac to be the server when I do that) will rip a hole in time when rendering together though, even though they are P3 and older AMD boxes. I got them (over time) from the state auction house for about 20 bucks each, and I’ve gutted 6 or 7 more for RAM and hard drives.
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