Render fast question

[Hanna Dean]

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SO sir proxies are faster ?

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[Walter Soyka]

[hanna dean] “SO sir proxies are faster ?”

Not necessarily. Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules for Ae optimization. It depends on your comp, it depends on your hardware, it depends on your settings…

If there were an “always make it faster” button, I would tell you. There is not. Ae is not a real-time system, and until Adobe delivers some performance improvements from this new architecture, there’s not a lot we can do about that.

The best advice I can give you is actually read the Improve performance page [link] and the things it links to (it referenced proxies, for example). Then try a few of the recommendations. Experiment. See what works better for you with your projects in your workflow. Be smart about where you turn things down and where you leave them cranked up to balance the trade-off between interactive performance and preview render quality. Know that what works well on one project might work better or worse on another.

Regarding proxies specifically, I will remind you of four things.

1) If you have configured a fast internal SSD for your disk cache, you should already be getting a lot of the benefit a proxy could provide without the manual overhead of actually setting them up.

2) Proxies do not have to be stills, or low-quality, or low-resolution. You can make high-quality proxies of hard-to-render comps so Ae can refer to the proxy files afterwards instead of relying on the cache (which may be cleared or automatically pruned) or re-rendering.

3) Lloyd Alvarez’s BG Render script [link] is great for rendering proxies of comps in the background while you continue working elsewhere in your project.

4) Make sure that you change your render settings “Proxy use” option from “Use no proxies” to either “Use comp proxies” or “Current settings” if you wish for your renders to reference the proxies instead of the cache or re-rendering.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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