[Dudley Saunders]

Thanks, this is just what I needed, and so clearly explained.

[Dudley Saunders]

I finally took the project to a more powerful computer and the results were only a little faster. I broke it up into three parts then merged them later. What I’ve learned? Liquify is just a render pig.

Dudley Saunders
Editor-Producer

[Dudley Saunders]

Thanks again — for the benefit of anyone not following the other thread, I updated, restarted the computer, but found the same thing happens. Tried it with multiprocessing, but the info tab said “Insufficient RAM, Multiprocessing Disabled” It won’t let me change it.

Following other advice, I did the following:

“Open up the secret preferences by going to Preferences and holding down the Shift key and clicking General. It’s the bottom tab.

Click Disable Layer Cache and set Purge Every to 5 or 10 frames.”

This kept my RAM usage from escalating, but rendering is still painfully slow: 24 hours has gotten me 1470 frames of 8114 total. Should this be so slow?

Dudley Saunders
Editor-Producer

[Dudley Saunders]

This is happening to me, and it won’t open via File>Open inside of After Effects either.

I am opening a CS4 project for the first time in CS5, but all my other CS4 projects are having no trouble opening in CS5. These are new, very fast PCs — any ideas? It’s a pretty crucial project.

Dudley Saunders
KCET Los Angeles

Dudley Saunders
Editor-Producer