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How to speed up render?
I have a new system – Q6600, 8 gig of RAM, Asus P5Q motherboard etc. I am trying desperately, even with this new system to speed up my renders.
Is there any tips? What are decent settings to use for rendering NTSC 720X540 that will give quality results without taking forever.For example; it takes me approx 1 hour to render out 2 minutes of footage on a 3272 X 2016 comp.
The background image is a psd which is 4862 X 3401 in size. For the project I am creating some 2.5D camera movement with CC page turn on objects in 3d space.Any suggestions?
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Well, you seem to have HUGE comps for NTSC stuff… doesn’t seem to make much sense to me.
Also, AE doesn’t handle very large files so well, the 4k PSD you have isn’t going to be doing you any favours. Some people suggest that with large images it’s better to split them into a series of smaller ones and tile them together in a comp, apparently that helps performance quite a bit.
Keep an eye on this other thread which was just created too and is asking the same question, really. I mentioned BG renderer there, which you should look into.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/955776
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Ok,
If I am understanding you right :
1) I should get rid of the PSD and make it a jpg – will that help?2) Split the large PSD into four smaller pictures and then link them in 3D space in ae?
The reason I wanted to go so big is that it is a giant chalkboard with dozens of pictures on it. I wanted to be able to fly around (which I can) and stop on the photos – and the photos I wanted to be high resolution enough to be able to zoom in a bit. Maybe I didn’t need to make the comp that big? Was there a better way?
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[David Del] “Maybe I didn’t need to make the comp that big? Was there a better way?”
Can you create a transition to hide changing from the blackboard comp (at smaller siZe) to a the larger precomps that represent each of the photos?
Your blackboard doesn’t need to be any larger than the widest shot of it you ever see.
The individual photo precomps can be any size but, if you’re scaling them way down to fit the flying scene, you’re still wasting a ton of time processing them upstream of the blackboard.You can also save tons of processing by prerendering all of your movies.
NTSC DV is about 400,000 pexels per frame.
HD is freakin’ huge, about 2,000,000 pixels per frame. The RAM and CPU resources required to process those pixels are not linear progressions, it’s a geometric number.bogiesan
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Ok, I am trying to understand what you are saying :
If I make the blackboard at 720X540 roughly, when I zoom into it from afar, it looks pixellated and not sharp – not what I want. So I made it a bit smaller at 2500 X 1750. I am hoping that speeds things up. I am not really that knowledgeable when it comes to AE, so I might be missing some easy steps.
Now, should I precomp the photos? There is a stack of them and they flip from pic to pic – will precomping the set of photo’s speed things up?I am not sure what you mean by hide the changing of the blackboard comp…
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When I render, it says – 60% of 4Gigs of RAM being used!?! I am on Vista 64 bit (which recognizes all 8 gigs), why doesn’t AE?
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