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rendering time
I have a 9 second comp that I’m rendering to an avi and the render que indicates 6.5 hours (could end up much longer, the last one took about 13 hours). I’ve precomped two or three previous comps and am left with this one layer comp. Comp size is 360X240. I have a Pentium IV 3 gig with 1 gig of ram. Seems like it should be enough machine to handle this. My video card is a ATI Radeon 7200. I posted a similar question some time back but did not resolve the problem. I must be missing some setting. I am at a loss. Of course I can’t use AE till the render is finished which may mean all day. This just doesn’t seem reasonable. Is everyone using AE out of work for as much as half to a full day when they render?
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What are you doing? Heavy effects? Greenscreen? What kind of video are you using? Are you using Motion Blur and Frame Blending? Any 3rd party plugins?
Your box is plenty fast, chances are elements in the comp are causing the massive slow renders.
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Using Zaxwerks and Knoll and Trapcode Particular. No motion blur. No greenscreen or frame blending. This is not a large or long piece.
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I know Zaxwerks can be slow as a pig depending on the complexity of the 3D/Lights/Materials… I was getting 8sec/frame on a simple 3D scene with 4 objects, 3 lights, and texture maps (on the fastest dual proc. Mac with tons of RAM, etc…) and I know Trapcode Shine can be *exceptionally* slow (so Particular is probably in the same ballpark). Not sure about Knoll.
Try turning down some settings. I don’t think there’s anything else you can do short of getting an even beefier PC. good luck!
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Don’t know about zaxwerks, but in most 3D programs the time-killers are Bump Maps, Reflections, and Transparancy with refraction. If there’s just your average Shading going on, it shouldn’t render that sloww.
I on the other hand find Shine to be pretty fast, especially when compared to other high-quality Radial Zoom Blurs.
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Not using any of those. I understand there may be differing opinions about various plugins. Can I get some feedback on the time it takes some others to render a comp with medium effects? Give me something to compare to. My render que is now indicating 24 hours to completion and over 3 hours has already elapsed.
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That sounds pretty long, but you never know — it depends on what’s in the comp, among other things.
To see how your system shapes up, download and render (tomorrow) the projects from this site:
https://www.media-motion.tv/aebenchmarks.html
Elsewhere on that site is a benchmark for the fastest system tested.Hope that helps,
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I’m running it now. The render que indicates 3+ hours for comp 2. We’ll see. Once it completes, how do I determine what is taking so long? Can I tweak my system?
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3 hours for Comp 2 is ridiculous, in my opinion.
Click the “render details” triangle in the queue and tell us which process seems to be taking the most time as you render. If it’s “retrieving frame”, then your disc is slow, fragged, full, or your images are really big.
Anybody else want to chime in?
Steve
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This is the “benchmark” test so the file sizes are the same everyone else has used.
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try shutting off certain groups of effects at a time to see what is specifically causeing these render times then figure a way to simplify.
Let us know
Andrew
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