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how to render faster when using plugins?
I am using After Effects CS4, my computer is current with alot of memory and a good video card, but I am confused if there is a setting I need to set in AE or something to make my renders go a little faster. I put a 3 minute clip on the timeline with a “warm glow” Magic Bullet Looks preset on top and to render out it is taking over an hour for a 3 minute clip! Any tricks I need to know to speed up the render time?
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Sounds like a long time to me…
One thing you can look into is BG renderer – it’s a script written by some genius, and allows you to take advantage of multiprocessing and all that jazz. So if your computer is really current it can do a lot – cuts some of my render times by 75%… i just did a test for something which took 12mins from the normal render queue, and 3mins in the BG renderer.
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There’s a whole section of After Effects Help dedicated to this question:
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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That sounds about right for a Magic Bullet Look filter. It’s doing a ton of processing and interpretation but you have not stated the format. For DV, that might be a bit slow. But for any HD format, that’s what I would expect. Is there any other processing being done such as format transcoding (say, from some weird MPEG2 codec to ProRes?) or scaling?
Setting up network rendering has never worked for me but others have found the stock Adobe AE rendering engine’s tools terrific for such heavy lifting.
bogiesan
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