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Fastest Green Screen Rendering Quad Core
Hi there,
I got a quadcore (AMD 9950), XP. I’m looking to increase my render times for green screen footage.
Presently, with a basic video background it takes about 20 minutes. with a stationary background about 14 minutes.
I’m doing HD 1140 by 1080 with the WMV files( which I like) on their highest settings.
In particular, should I be trying to do this with the XP 64 bit OS or does it matter very much. Also, is it much faster with all four processors working together. Presently I don’t really enough RAM. So I need more. It appears that my video card doesn’t support the Keylight plugin because AFX CS3 crashed during rendering.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. I realize rendering is fundamentally a slow process, especially as more things get computed.
Is the multiprocessing thing not much of a time saver? I only have 2 gigs of ram in this computer right now, so i’m not using that option presently.
Rock on!!
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If your looking for faster renders… the best cheapest gain would be moving up to at least 3Gigs of RAM (2,4 or 6 Gig RAM is preferred for most mobo’s) …. Second (but definately not the cheapest), you could go with is a Adaptec Raid card setup using e-sata 15k rpm Fujitsu Drives. At least one set of dual HD/stripe raid for your disk cache and another set of dual HD’s/stripe setup for your operating system/software application. That set up will be a 4 drive (i.e., 2 striped raid) setup. You could repeat this set up for each disk cache drive setup you want to use…(see the Media and Disk cache setup preferences).
Multi-processors are a step up in speed (specially with 64bit OS)… but, typically the biggest bottleneck is the Hard Drive (and, the HD’s search time for long renders).
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I’m using win7, a dual quad core (inte i7) and 12 gbs of ram, and it works fine!
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That’s very interesting about windows 7. I recall them even saying they “compatibility modes” as well if necessary.
Just out of curiosity, how long would take to render a minute of greenscreen footage on your computer?
thanks
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Also….are you using a 32 or 64 bit version of Windows 7? I’m not sure if After Effects works with a 64 bit version or does it?
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