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Rendertimes: What’s faster, EPS or tiff/PSD?
I have a texture which I made in Illustrator, its used quite often in every comp so the question came up:
Would it be faster to render if I imported it into photoshop and made a tiff or psd out of it? What takes AE longer to process, AI or PSD files? -
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Well, theoretically neither will take longer than the other. AE will build an initial pixel buffer even for vector files and use this if it can. You will only notice differences if you work with excessively large resolution files (vectors behave better) or use collapse transformations/ continuously rasterize (will get slower because vectors are re-rasterized for every frame).
Mylenium
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Depending on the complexity of your texture in AI, making a flattened version may be faster… I recently made a very complex AI file with a great deal of transparency and varied blending modes, and although AE would render it, it was very slow. I initially just made a proxy to use during animation work, but even the test renders were very slow. I made a JPG file that was 4 times larger than the original, precomped to make up for the scale difference (there was a close camera shot in AE), and it still rendered much faster than the original AI file. Typically, I like to leave items as vector, because that’s my specialty, but I just kept it in the project folder, in case changes were needed.
Rhett -
If you use Nucleo (which personally I love), note that EPS files can drag down rendering with this plugin in certain instances. Its not always apparent, but with very large files being rasterized it can be a significant drag on things.
As always…your results may vary.
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