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Why Is the Remove Grain Effect So SLOW??!!
I was given some footage that was shot in low light and has grain. The Remove Grain filter works beautifully, but my GOODNESS, it’s slower than a snail. If this were for my personal use, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but it’s for work, and people want things fast.
As-is, each clip (short and small) with RG filtefr applied takes about 1.5 HOURS to render!! If any little change is requested, I’ll have to go through that process allll over again.
That cannot be right.
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AE CS4
Mac OSX 10.5.2
2×3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
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Simply the remove grain does a ton of calculations to clean up the footage and it’s doing it on every pixel. And it takes a long time on most computers.
Couple of things you can do. One is investigate network rendering. You install the AE render engine to every computer you can, then setup a network render. Definetely going past the AE Basics stuff, have to open the help to do it.
Second, you said “if there are changes”, assuming you are compositing, you should probably precomp all the footage with just the remove grain effect, then render out and with the choice “replace footage”. If there are changes you won’t be re-rendering the remove grain effect.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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I have an answer for that, but it’s one that requires quite a few years working in a place…”You want it fast, learn to shoot it right then!”
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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You’re right, Dave. If it was shot properly, just like photos, the post process would not take as long. I just give a heads up that it’ll take a while.
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“…you should probably precomp all the footage with just the remove grain effect, then render out and with the choice “replace footage”. If there are changes you won’t be re-rendering the remove grain effect.”
You’re right, John. In fact, I did that with one clip while testing it.
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ROTFL!!!! I love it! I’m still a Freelancer, so they say “Jump,” and I just ask, “How high?”
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