Aaron Schurman
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Are you using OpenGL renderer? I have seen a major speed increase when I check this box in the render window. I have an 850XT which has helped a ton for openGL realtime previews, but I just noticed last night that they incorporated that speed increase into the rendering. I took a project that rendered in 18:25 in AE 6.5 and it rendered it in 15:30 with OpenGl rendering checked in 7. So you could give that a try.
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There is also an amazing plugin for Cinema4D called “path deformer lite” that does excatly that and makes it super easy. Just thought I would throw that in there!
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Hmmm, maybe it has something to do with a combination of applying effects/motion blur and continous raster. Try this…precomp the layer…within the precomp, turn on the continous raster, then go back to your main comp window and turn on 3D layer, motion blur and apply any effects. Something to try. Good luck!
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Hmmm, very interesting Maryanne. The warning would seem to point to a possible leak in OpenGL. I am not sure what that would do for rendering, and I have never heard of a memory leak on a video card (which is where OpenGL is accelerated). You could try shifting your preview mode into software only (I believe it’s a setting somewhere at the base of your Comp window). Also, try the Caps Lock trick I mentioned earlier…this would allow rendering without sending any information to your video card, and should therefore bypass any chance of an OpenGL error. Just a thought! Good luck.
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Scott,
Thanks for the response, maybe I am wrong and haven’t worked in too many extremely difficult project (and don’t use Zaxwerks because I build most of that stuff in Cinema4D), so I am not guess I am not sure. I always thought that AE had a dynamic memory managment that always kept a chunk of memory clear to read from and write to and more memory just affected how much extra memory was set aside for reading and writing and the faster it cleared it out. But I guess when thinking about writing things like HDTV sized frames to memory with plugins added could more than likely cause some overload on the memory. Sorry if I gave the wrong information!As far as the Caps Lock, it works the same as closing the comp window…instead of writing a frame to the hard disk and then writing a frame to the monitor, it shuts off the refresh to the monitor and just focuses on writing to a hard disk. You can turn the caps lock off anytime during a render to see progress, but as long as the caps lock is on, the monitor stays black (or shows the last frame rendered to the monitor). I presonally have seen some descent performance by doing this…but then again…maybe I am imagining things! Hahahaha.
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Could it have something to do with your depth of field? Check your depth of field settings and where your object sits in relativity to your camera. Does it become sharper when you move it back or forth in Z space? Just a thought.
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You should never be out of RAM in AE as it is Dynamic and clears memory when it’s done using it. More RAM just makes a difference on how fast a piece is rendered. You can try and reduce memory when rendering by either having the Caps Lock down or closing the Comp window alltogether and having only the project window and render window up. Other than that, what may be an issue is one of two things:
1.) You have a memory leak in one of your chips and it’s causing the crash. You can check this out by using either a program called Tech Tool Pro or just replace your RAM and see if it still does it
2.) Your plug-in is not the latest version. Check to see if The Foundry has placed an updated version on the web. I was having major crashes with Aurorix Bad Film and by updating the plugs it all works great now.
That’s all I can think of…hope this helps!
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I guess I don’t fully understand the direction you are moving, but I am working on a Mac and exporting for a Avid Adrenaline. What I do is I create a file using the “animation” codec in After Effects exporting as a quicktime and I export it as RGB+Alpha with the setting “Straight/Unmatted”. When using these settings what should happen is one single file should be exported containing both the color channels (RGB) plus the alpha channel and it should be in the .mov format. When imported into the Avid, they should check their import settings for quicktime to recognize and interpert the built-in alpha channel. This is the setup I have used and haven’t had any issues. Let me know if this helps! Thanks!
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You also need to make sure that in your settings window above where it says “straight” or “premultiplied” that in the color settings you chose RGB+Alpha. Also you have to make sure you chose a codec that supports alphas like the “animation” codec.
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I have AE 6.5 installed on a 15″ Powerbook with 1.5Ghz G4 and running tiger and so far no problems. Maybe see if you can downgrade to AE 6.5 instead of 6.5.1. Just a thought.
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