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newbie—- need help to reduce rendering time
I am truely a newbie, and i’m sort of flying by the seat of my pants…
I have a huge 2:50 animation with about 400 3d layers which i’m outputting to standard def 720×486….
The animation is composed of hand drawn images made into .psd files and imported into photoshop. i’ve got it all looking great when i preview it, but my rendering time is more than 100 hours. How do i cut this down? I haven’t done any pre-rendering at all.should i be rendering my nested compositions? I tried doing that and i it rendered the background as well, and i need that to be transparents…
HELP!
please excuse my lack of knowledge. i’m trying to learn as i go along…
lindsey
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Depending on several things such as your drive/network speed where your imagery is being pulled from, pre-rendering your nested comps can actually slow your final render down if you are dealing with imagery of this large size especially if all of your pre-renders have alpha channels embedded. I suspect that your slow down might me that you are squashing the 2:50 comps down to 4:3, especially if your original .psd’s are large. You might try rendering your final comp at it’s native 2:50 res. to a photo jpeg QuickTime file, then
bring your rendered .mov back in and squash it to 4:3. It seems weird but if you consider that AFX is rendering all of your layers and any applying effects at 2:50 then squashing that down, the hours will quickly add up. Also, if you are rendering with audio as well, wait until you render your 4:3 version to marry the video and audio. This will speed up the process and free up ram. I hope this helps, or even makes sense for that matter.Steve Stone
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