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HELP – I need to render fast
I have a four minute motion graphics piece with lots of motion blur, frame blending, and hi-res video. I need to render fast for approval – any suggestions? I set it up to render last night before I left and this morning it was only half done. I was rendered an uncompressed quicktime.
Thx!
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Kids.
Why, when I was running CoSA (AE’s ancestral code) we’d wait a weekend to see ten seconds of one effect on one layer.
While I understand your predicament, I have no sympathy at all. This stuff takes time. And good work takes even more time. Period.Growing up with AE on ancient machines taught us olde timers how to economize. Pre-rendering at lower rez and using proxy elements that can be made into movies instead of being processed live in the timeline are two of the major timesavers.
You do not need to preview HD material at full rez to get the feel for motion effects. You only need to see very limited frames of HD material to demonstrate look and feel and end results. You get used to thinking in terms of planning your render pipeline. Anything that’s golden (that is not 3D) can be prerendered. Anything that can wait can be proxied with a lo rez version.
Aside from that, your client either needs to understand the existing process or pay to work on bigger, faster, dedicated systems.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I ended up stopping the render (HD) and started it again in a lower quality (SD). This made the render go from 48 hours to around 2 hours. I also had to take off frame blending and motion blur.
I’ve learned my lesson.
Thanks for getting back to me – I really appreciate the advice.
xxoox,
Amber
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