excessive render time?

[David Bogie]

[Bill Triplett] “What then, is the best way to render one minute segments as an option? “

I did not address this because it’s not a good idea. Stitching them together is more difficult than you might imagine and the added struggle to set the ins and outs takes much longer than simply doing the long render.

Without knowing much more about your project it’s easy for me to simply say your experience with coping with the limits of your individual system and its rendering capabilities have not caught up with your design ambitions.

You could be scaling things inappropriately. You could be stacking your layer inefficiently. You could be processing tons of extractive effects that should be prerendered.

bogiesan

[Rdub]

You are right. My system and rendering limitations have not caught up with my design ambitions. The project consists of only 2 layers and Trapcode Particle with 300+ pictures replacing the particles.

Seems simple enough on the surface.

Thank you for the input.

[Rdub]

Decided to go ahead and bite the bullet and render the entire comp. Selected H264. Have 300 images, all jpg’s.

Got this error
After Effects Error:PhotoShop file format error-out of memory
(-108)
(45:35)

XP Pro with 4 gig ram.

Recognize this error?

Also, the render screen shows 58% of 2 GB being used. I have 4 GB of ram.