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Setting Up Video to work easily on After Effects
ok so i edited this promo footage that i want to work some graphics on top off. the end result of this edit is a 720×480 dv picture. i want to be able to bring this into AE and add graphics that interact with the action in the footage. the problem is that that rendering times get annoyingly slow when i add the footage to a comp! what work arounds do you suggest for this? or am i stuck with alternating between resolution sizes and zoom levels in the comp window…
thank you!
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What do you mean when you say the rendering times are, “annoyingly slow.” What are you trying to do? How long is it taking? What sort of graphics are you trying to put on there? What kind of computer do you have?
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thanks for the quick response!
well when i deal with just the graphics doing render previews work as it should for my system. i have a power pc g5 with 4 gb of ram. however if i add the video to the comp to be able to work from that render times go ro about 1-2 seconds per frame!. the graphics i’m adding are not that complex just simple text layers with animating position, scale, etc. -
Well, you said it worked “as it should” with the graphics, but when you add the video it gets slower. The complexity of the graphics then, don’t really matter.
As Dave said, those times don’t sound that unusual. Is this different from what it normally does? How often have you used that machine for this?
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It didn’t seem that long ago that I would have to set up a 10 second animation to render overnight. Now 1 to 2 seconds is considered slow!
Lee
CTV Calgary
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