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what am i doing wrong? AE freezes :L
CS5 Mac Pro 16gb of RAM, 3TB array, OS X 10.6.
Can’t handle my simple project – AE keeps freezing up.I got a Rotoscoping pre-comp ( I froze the frames, so shouldn’t be slowing the system down )
and a trapcode form layer.Everytime I’m trying to key in trapcode values, it’s propagading in the background and I have to wait for a few minutes just to see the frame in the preview window and once an hour AE freezes and I have to force quit and many times lose unsaved work. It’s day 2 of this nightmare. I tried pre-rendering the rotoscoping comp ( ProRes 422 ) but it was asking for 14 hours and I got a deadline.
What am I doing wrong? Open GL and Multiprocessing are both off. Plenty of free space on the drive.
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Yes sir, rotobrush.
AE Version 10.0058.
Watched all available videos several times. -
Like when I tried to render out the entire project ( 4 min long ), it asked for 37 hours to render. Is it normal to wait that long and keep the machine running or is that crazy? I’m at 1920 x 1080. It would really suck to get an error message after 2 days of downtime.
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What are your render settings? Have you applied anything other than the roto brush?
For 4 minutes this seems excessively long. Is this 29.97 or 59.94 ?
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29.97. I duplicated the rotobrush layer twice with different color corrections, so it’s calculating it 3 times. There’s also a trapcode form layer ( applied to the background ). Render settings: Best, ProRes 422. Didn’t change any other settings. Right now it’s telling me only 59 hours left 🙂 Should I wait? Really need to send this out to the client asap.
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Can you render out a single pass of the Roto and use the rendered file to for the CC layers. If you’re calculating the Roto 3 times, that’s significant.
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Have you thought about updating to version 10.0.2? The updates to 10.0.1 and 10.0.2 fixed a lot of problems.
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I have thought about it, but at this moment i’m thinking about what to do about the current pre-render status of the roto brush pre-comp. After nine hours it went from 4 hours remaining to 98 hours and 51 min remaining. And it’s not rendering a single frame. Looks like it’s frozen again. 73% of 16GB of RAM currently in use. After Effects i hate you. What could I be possibly doing wrong? It was moving along at a decent pace.
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I’m sorry, I don’t have enough Roto Brush experience to really help.
I do know that there’s no reason to calculate it more than once. Next time, put it in a precomp and use the precomp as a track matte for any other layers where you need it. (Or, even better, prerender.)Do you have a lot of corrective strokes? A lot of really long spans? I’m guessing here.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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enabled multiprocessing, messed with its settings after watching todd’s vid/articles and rendered in 3 hours 🙂 I’m guessing if i upgrade to a vid card that can support open GL and I enable open GL it’ll render even faster.
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Having a bad day.
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