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Rendering in AE CS3
Hello people,
im working on a MAC 2x 3.2 Ghz Quad-Core Intel
10GB 667 ddr2 FB-DIMM
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
I´m having problems with AE CS3 when exporting trough render queue.
It always crashes using H.264 codec or NONE.
i want to know if someone could help me setting up the preferences
for the best to this MAC.thanks.
Cesar
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3 Replies
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first off, you should never use ae to render to h.264 or mpeg-2 based codecs. render from ae at the highest possible quality codec (uncompressed, lossless animation, photo-jpeg, prores, etc) and use a compression utility to compress to those types of files.
but you mentioned that it crashed when rendering to ‘none’, so i don’t think the crash is related to the compression.
by your machine description i think it is a 2008 macpro. if i’m thinking of the right machine, the ram configuration of those macs is very specific, and you can not only get poor performance if it is installed incorrectly, but you can also get stability issues.
see this page for some info on configuration:
https://www.barefeats.com/harper3.html
if you have the manual, that will help too.
you can find the current configuration for your ram by choosing ‘about this mac’ from the apple menu and clicking the more info button and selecting ‘memory’ from the hardware properties. then compare what you see there with what you find in the manual or that webpage…
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
the link i provided doesn’t really show the ram slot and riser configurations that you should use for installing ram…
here’s a link to the manual, if you don’t have yours:
manuals.info.apple.com/en/Mac_Pro_Early_2008.pdf
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
YES, Never Render Compressed file from AE. Always Render full HI-DEF and use some other program to do the various compressions. It saves a lot of time.
Thanks
sanj.
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