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Light Frustration
I’ve been using AE for awhile now and have yet to attempt any work with the 3D lights.
I’m on a mac and it just seems that lights are way too processor intensive, to the point that i’ll try a work-around just to avoid the waiting…waiting…waiting…
i’m not asking for much, just a few shadows here and there. Yet i get blown out images all the time and don’t have the patience to tweak, wait, tweak, wait, tweat, wait… (i know, i should be more patient)
anyone have any suggestions for working with lights or good tutorials…
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3 Replies
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Hmm, the lights in AE aren’t that processor intensive, are you using an older machine (specs, please)? Also, what version of AE are you using?
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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I’M running AE 6.5, on a dual 1.8 G5….
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[UnitedFan] “I’m on a mac and it just seems that lights are way too processor intensive, to the point that i’ll try a work-around just to avoid the waiting…waiting…waiting…”
The lights don’t generally add that much render time, it’s the shadows that kill ya!
My recommendations are working at half res, reducing the shadow map size for your composition temporarily (you can do this in the composition settings) or turning ‘casts shadows’ off for all of your lights temporarily.
Do your lighting and your compositing separately, so that once you have the lights the way you like them turn on Draft 3D (which disables lights and depth of field) just to the right of the Live Update button at the top of your timeline. Draft 3D is super zippy, but you’ll want to do a couple of spot checks of your final composite to make sure there are now shadow issues.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA
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