Fast Computer – Slow Rendering!

[Theo Veltman]

Sorry to post again but I just had a thought.

If your composition comprises lots of footage (especially HD) it’s probably best to run fewer instances of AFX when rendering, as the HDD access will be a lot. However if you’re doing mostly a motion graphics type job with masks, solids and effects you will probably see better results running more instances of AFX as this will tax the processors and memory more. Depending on the effects used you may need to scale back the processors a little and increase the ram allocation but definitely try to increase the amount of memory on your system to as much as you can afford to. I always make sure I have 2GB per physical processor (i.e. not CPU) as I find this the best medium between cost and efficiency.