[Albert Kowalski]

I think I found a solution. It looks like After Effects which is working in the background causes the problems. I tried to kill the AfterFX.exe process in Task Manager to see what happens. I did it when I noticed my export started to be very slow. AE occupied around 7 GB of RAM. After the kill, AE restarts itself (or Media Composer does that) and it slowly gains the previous RAM. What is great, the export stops just for few seconds, waiting for AE to return to it previous state. But fortunately after this action, render speeds up. I just need to restart AE every hour to make sure it doesn’t stuck. So I created a simple batch file:

@echo off
taskkill /f /im AfterFX.exe
:exit

saved it as KillAE.bat and set the Task to run the file every hour. Thanks to that it is fully automated and the export works like a charm 🙂

[Albert Kowalski]

Not the best way, but I understand that is one option. But how can I investigate what causes the problem?

[Albert Kowalski]

Unfortunately there is no Render and Replace in CS6 🙁

And of course I use GPU acceleration in preferences. That doesn’t change anything.

[Albert Kowalski]

That was easy! Thanks 🙂

[Albert Kowalski]

Ok but how?

[Albert Kowalski]

I cannot scale the photo that’s the thing. I don’t want to add any lighting. It has to stay the way it is.

Let me be more clear. I have a camera shot of a room and a guy sitting in the center. It is a still shot, camera doesn’t move. Now I capture one still frame of this shot, open it in Photoshop and with a Stamp Tool I remove the guy from the scene by copying the background on his body. Let say it is a very simple room and he is sitting on one color wall so it is very easy to copy the wall on him and remove him.

Now I go back to AE, put the edited image and mask it with some feather, so I have a camera shot of an empty room. But the problem is you can see the difference between the photo part and the video part. So I want to add something to the photo so it looks more “alive”.