[Dan Underhill]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. My Win Server 2003 is definitely 64-bit, along with the version of AE5 that I installed. Everything goes fine for the installation, but when I launch AE5 I then get the error about it not being able to run on this older OS. All of the other software I’m running is 64 bit too, and they are the latest versions of various 3D apps and they run fine.

If I could copy/paste from AE5 to AE4 then I would have no need to do it because I would obviously have AE5 running in the first place. Anyone here running Win Server 2008 with AE5 and can confirm it works?

[Dan Underhill]

Thanks Dave,

Ya, I went that route initially but I found it took 5X longer. You see my 10000×1080 comp takes 15-20 hours to render on a dozen machines. If I create 5 comps, then it’s basically having to render the whole thing 5 times and slice once. A process that would take 5 days to render. If I could use multiple output modules, then it only renders once and slices it into 5 pieces.

My solution was to render a “master” uncropped pass (since even using CROP AE seems to render the entire footprint anyway before cropping) and then reimport that TIFF sequence into a comp and output the slices as I would have initially. Since the heavy rendering was already done the slicing now goes fast, about 90 minutes.

So I end up rendering once and then adding about 90-120 minutes on to do the slicing. Compare that to creating 5 comps of the exact same project each with different crop outputting, that would have taken at least 5 days since it has to render the same thing 5X.

Thanks!