Adolfo Rozenfeld
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.MOV, again.
Motion’s Quicktime component is what allows other applications, like AE or the QT player itself, to import Motion project files as movies. When you rename or add the .MOV extension, they just take it as a a QT file.
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You just need to add the .MOV extension to the Motion project files.
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“‘ll have to check my preferences again to make sure simultaneous frame rendering is enabled.”
This setting (and more importantly, the feature itself) doesn’t exist in AE 7. It’s one of the big, new features in CS3.
To take advantage of multiple, simultaneous frame rendering you would have to upgrade to CS3 or get Nucleo/Nucleo Pro.
Other than that, I understand AE is tuned more specifically for Intel processors. But of course, this by itself doesn’t lead to 14 hour renders 🙂
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No custom brushes as Photoshop’s (AE brushes are vector-based and PS brushes are bitmap-based).
There is a trick that may work for you:
If you get a typeface that has the sign you want (or use a type design utility to paste your shape as a character) then you can use AE’s text animation engine to reveal these characters in a vector path.You don’t get things like pen-pressure sensitive scattering and all, but it works.
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Well, yes, that sounds like something that may take a long time.
But in 2007, a long time means an hour or two (depending on duration, of course).Is it CS3? If so, do you have a multi-core computer? If so, did you enable simultaneous frame rendering in preferences? Just that by itself may lower the render times a lot if you have enough RAM.
From your description of the project, it may be a good workflow practice to pre-render some pre-comps (particles, for example) and use them as proxies…. A proxy is a pre-rendered item that works instead (but not in an irreversible way) of an original (usually, render intensive) element.
Take a look at the “Work with placeholders and proxies” section of AE Help:
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Malcolm:
An encoding application (say, Sorenson Squeeze, Canopus Procoder, Apple Compressor, etc) takes a *finished* video source file and just takes care of encoding it to a different format/codec/size combination.A content-creation application (like After Effects) also has to encode when you export. But it’s only one of many things in the processing pipe: depending on which features you used in your composition, it spends most of the time computing things like spatial transforms, effects, masks, speed changes, motion blur, etc for each frame. Encoding is the last thing it does for each of these frames.
If the Composition is really simple to process, then I guess the efficiency of this or that encoder could make a more obvious difference. Say, AE will take 1:50 mins instead of 2:00 mins because of this. Another case would be if you’re using really gigantic frames originated in film and scanned at 2K/4K resolution: with such things, the decoding/encoding stages (and hard disk speed) could become a more significant factor.
However, a composition that takes 14 hours to render… it is unlikely that it’s spending such a long time encoding. About 99 per cent of the time is most likely just performing the image processing/data crunching required for each frame.
BTW, how did you get a comp to take 14 hours? I don’t think I’ve seen those rendering times for AE, in years.
Hope this helps…
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Why did you assume using Sheer would speed up renders?
While it is true that Sheer is very fast at both encoding at decoding, the truth is that in a 14 hr render, only a tiny amount goes to encoding. Most of it just image processing.
Lossless codecs like Sheer are about reduced file size, not reduced rendering time 🙂
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Select the Kona as the main output device in the Mac OS “Sound” preference pane.
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You really need to take a look at this document:
https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/aftereffects/articles/aftereffectscs3_color_mgmt.pdfAs you’ll see, this became much easier and powerful in AE CS3.
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Just so it’s clear, I was specifically inviting the Cow’s Kathlyn to write to me, because I have reasons to believe it’s an (again) specific case.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any tricks to share regarding licensing problems.Is it clear now? 🙂