terrrrrrible rendering

[Malcolm Desoto]

Multiprocessing is not turned on
Open GL is not turned on for previews or rendering.

The footage did originate from a DSLR. I’m re-exporting it from Avid using an animation codec to see if that makes a difference…

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Although, I’ve done projects in the past using footage derived from the same camera with no problems. Odd that it should just act up now.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

Well, no idea what the deal is. Changing the encoding doesn’t help.

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[Craig Wall]

Malcolm…sorry to hear of your troubles. I have had plenty with AECS5 as Adobe’s new memory architecture is (I believe) a work in progress.

I don’t know if this will help, but I had tons of problems *until* I did all of the following:
-Only used animation codec
-Added RAM
-Purged Preferences
-Rebooted when I saw problems
-Used Multi-processing but with generous RAM allocation and limited CPUs

I would also check your Activity Monitor and make sure that all instances of the Adobe AE renderer are properly quitting. Sometimes they will hang without you noticing.

Life is full of funny particles.

[Malcolm Desoto]

I ended up setting it to purge after every frame and was able to render out 10 or so frames at a time :/

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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

[Kevin Camin]

This is unrelated to your question, but it isn’t a good idea to shoot green screen with DSLR cameras–you’re going to have artifacting around your key. DSLRs shoots highly compressed footage with not enough data collected in the color channels to make a clean key.

[Malcolm Desoto]

I don’t think that’s true at all, Kevin. While it is certainly compressed, you can definitely get a clean key if you use proper lighting and know how to use keylight. I’ve been using a DSLR for about a year now and have had great keying results.

As for the rendering issue, I’m not sure what happened. I was able to render out the project (painstakingly slow) but it finally all rendered out. When I have more time, I’ll scrutinize the project more closely.

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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein

[Kevin Camin]

You can do it, but you’re not going to get as clean of a key due to the chroma subsampling compression. Professional video cameras have three CCDs, one for each color, or a camera like the RED has no chroma subsampling. I personally love HDSLR, but would never shoot green screen with one.

[Malcolm Desoto]

Dave, I’ve tried a number of different codecs. I am running AE 9 though.

Kevin, You are correct, if I were shooting with a Red, keying would be easier.

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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” –Albert Einstein