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faster rendering?
Hi
I’m doing a huge opening vid at the moment for the watchout system with 3 screens. My resolution is 2304 X 768 and I’m doing a lot of 2.5D stuff. I doing a test today to see what the results are with half this resolution (1152 X 384). If is ok, I’ll render at half resolution, as my render time for a 4 min vid is 21 hours on a dualcore G5.
I’m wondering the easiest way to reconstruct/render at half rez. I would usually subcomp it, resize and render that comp. Does AE render at the full rez then shrink back to the 50%? – this of course, would be a longer render using this method. Would it be the same render time as re-jigging all of my comp/layer sizes? (which is a serious undertaking) Or should I do a ‘stretch’ in the render queue?Thanks,
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4 Replies
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Use proxies. You can’t go wrong. You’ll still need to render with the high rez images come deadline time but proxies are the way to go when you’re building your comps and doing test renders.
HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
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The time is taken in the Render settings, in other words, if you render at full res in the Render settings, then shrink in the output module, you won’t save any time.
In other other words, if you want 1152×384, you should either drop everything into a comp of that size and scale down (transform, that is) or render the 2304×768 at half res in the render settings. Will one be faster? Sorry, I don’t know. Why not do a test of, say, 10 seconds of comp?
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Thought as much for the render settings. I suppose I’m thinking if AE is smart enought to say ‘I don’t need to render this at the original comp size resolution then scale, I’ll just scale it at this resolution then render’. Kind of like Shake with node based compositing. Must be a Adobe question.
Thanks will try a test Steve.
Jason.
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AE makes no assumptions. That’s why it allows us to screw up so often. 🙂
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