Render Times

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

It’s a good idea to restart AE prior to initiating a render. Quite often, I find my render times drop significantly when doing this.

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[Brian Charles]

In addition to Roland’s excellent tip, here are some links with information about improving After Effects performance in general.

https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/03/performance-tip-dont-oversched.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/improve-performance.html

There are many potential bottlenecks and issues that can cause long slow renders. Obvious ones like large files to be read and written, hundreds of layers and effects, not enough RAM, slow media drives, etc and some not so obvious bottlenecks which are discussed in the links above.

[Timothy Shay]

Thank You both. The best solution I’ve found is to use Dynamic Link, and work with Premiere for all my rendering and exporting needs.