Renders times increase as rendering multiples comps!

[Todd Kopriva]

Make sure that you’ve installed the latest updates ( https://adobe.ly/lsrkmJ ). They fix a lot of problems, including a fix in the 11.0.2 update that works around a bug in Mac OSX memory management.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Christian Reid]

Hey Dave and Todd, thanks for the replies.

Todd, I’m updating right now hoping it fixes.

Dave, I have already tried that and nothing changes.

I’ve made some other tests with minor changes. None of the things listed below worked:
– Rendering TIFF Sequence/MOV
– Multiple Frames ON/OFF
– Purge from Secret option ON/OFF
– Turning ON/OFF a little expression I did inside each Comp
– I’ve collected the files to another Mac and rendered, nothing!

What HAS worked is:
1. I’ve sent every comp I need to the Queue
2. Unchecked all the items
3. Check and render just the FIRST item
4. Delete this completed item from the Queue.
5. Render the second (that has become the #1 in the list)
And so on…

The thing is, when a comp has rendered, I NEED to remove the completed item, or it won’t reduce the time for the second one. For that, I’ve made a script with help from Dan Ebberts:

{
var rq = app.project.renderQueue;

// unqueue everything

for (var i = 1; i <= rq.numItems; i++){
rq.item(i).render = false;
}

// now queue, render, and delete them one at a time

var myItem;
while (rq.numItems > 0){
myItem = rq.item(1);
myItem.render = true;
rq.render();
myItem.remove();
}
}

It worked once, then it stopped working for no reason at all…crazy tech stuff…

I’m almost hopeless!