Multiprocessing Settings and 32 bit renders

[Walter Soyka]

I’d render the image sequence, then use a post-render action to stitch the movie.

See Adobe’s recommended memory settings for a starting point.

Walter Soyka
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[Rusty Shackleford]

I don’t see an option to stitch in post render, I only see the option to import the sequence into the project.
I was hoping to automatically export to a self contained quicktime of my choice.

I’ve looked at the Adobe recommended settings and looked elsewhere.
I was just curious for my CPU and RAM settings, what I should start out at for each settings.

Brandon Morris
http://www.brandonmorris.com

Canon T2i
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM 10.6

[Rusty Shackleford]

I haven’t updated that signature in awhile, but we also shoot a lot of projects on the HPX170, HPX500, and the RED One, and soon the RED Epic & RED Scarlet. But I was really looking at in the sense of After Effects and Motion Graphics for things like Glows, Blurs, Gradients, etc. I usually use ProRes HQ 422, but things like Starglow look noticeably better in 32 bits.

I believe I’ve looked at that reference for the RAM, just curious what people here recommend for my settings.

Brandon Morris
http://www.brandonmorris.com

Canon T2i
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM 10.6

[Rusty Shackleford]

I’ve been curious of how that is normally done with 32 bits rendered out and then broadcasted.

But for some projects, I made a firework display with particular and then added starglow.
In 32 bits, the glow was extremely better, even after I exported out as 32 bit psd sequence and converted to 16bit HQ ProRes.

Brandon Morris
http://www.brandonmorris.com

Canon T2i
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM 10.6

[Walter Soyka]

I usually select the comp I want to render, then add it to the render queue as a best-settings proxy image sequence. Then I add the comp to the render queue again, this time as a movie, with proxy use enabled.

I suppose you could alternately pre-comp your original comp. Add the original to the render queue as an image sequence with “Import & replace usage” as the post-render action. Add the pre-comp to the queue as a movie.

In both cases, AE will first render the comp as an image sequence, then read the sequence back in and render it as a movie.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Rusty Shackleford]

That’s genius!

Brandon Morris
http://www.brandonmorris.com

Canon T2i
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM 10.6

[Walter Soyka]

[Dave LaRonde] “f you were given a job involved in working with 640×480 footage in a 640×480 comp, you’d probably want to max out the number of processors… within reason, of course.”

Todd Kopriva says there’s a performance plateau around 8-10 threads:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/202/891262

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Darby Edelen]

[Walter Soyka] “Todd Kopriva says there’s a performance plateau around 8-10 threads:”

In my own use I’ve found the lowest common denominator to be lower, but that probably has a lot to do with the varied sort of work I’m doing. If I have time to tweak to find the right balance of processes to RAM usage for the project then I may save some much needed render time, but in my day to day work I usually cap the prefs at 4 processes with 2GB of RAM each.

I’ve found that the potential slow downs associated with getting these settings wrong outweigh the benefit of saving time by tweaking settings. The 4 process and 2GB of RAM amount to about a quarter of the computer’s available resources, but it’s the best I can do to keep things chugging along predictably 🙂

Darby Edelen