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Nucleo for AE 6.5
Hi,
I have a question about rendering. I’m a kind of a newb at all this, so pardon my inexperience. I am using After Effects 6.5 on my PC at work. It’s a Core 2 Duo 2G RAM. I’ve been looking into ways to improve render time and found a few options, but was usure which was the best way to go. Can someone tell me the difference between just getting Nucleo for the version I have now or upgrading to CS3? Or even just suggest a better option altogether? I’ve been making videos that are half an hour long with lots of effects and it takes a good 10 hours to render. I can understand the long render time, just wondering if there’s a better way. Thanks for any suggestions! -
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there would be pluses and minuses either way….
nucleo pro (i think nucleo standard isn’t available any more, but i could be wrong), has nice extras like background rendering, and, i think, a way to render previews in the background while you work in ae (i guess background preview rendering…) so you won’t be waiting as long to see previews.
a new version of ae, has improved caching that speeds up renders along with allowing multiple render engines to use available processors, similar to nucleo pro, but without the ability to do background processes. you would also get some new effects and features in a new version, like timewarp, pixel motion for frame blending, impoved 3d and better opengl support (and more).
either way, you’d also like to get more ram to feed the extra processors that can be used.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Hmm, guess I just needed some reassurance that it really does take that long. Didn’t know if it was an issue with the version of ae or the computer that was causing the long render time.
Thanks for the quick responses.
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you could also download a demo of nucleo pro and cs3, and take them on a test drive to see which one would render fastest on some of your prevous projects.
for really large projects, if you have the disk space, using footage that is not temporally compressed (like the vast majority of realtime playback codecs, dv, mpeg, h264, etc) can speed things up considerably. if you can’t work with lossless or uncompressed formats, how about photo jpeg…
ae really labors with temporal (interframe) compression codecs.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
I had read that AE only sees 3 (maybe 2?) gigs of RAM with XP – so how does this affect Nucleo?
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the way nucleo and cs3 work is to create multiple render engines (similar to a network render farm, but for each processor in your machine), allowing each renderer to use 2gb of ram. so if you have 4 processors you can utilize 8gb of ram for rendering in ae.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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