[Jan Sherlink]

A good approach when staying in AE would be;
Make your Flashlight’s lightbeam with Trapcode Lux and use it as a Luminance Matte on your Particular layer.
The best approach would be a 3D-app !

cya,

Jan

[Jan Sherlink]

Slicing up your picture and keeping them organised with parenting is the way to go.
…or…

In AE:
Hold Shift
Click Edit-Preferences-General (still holding shift)
In the drop down menu you’ll see “Secret”
There you can set the “purge every…frames”
renders take longer … but is renders !

cya,

Jan

[Jan Sherlink]

I’m running AE and QT on X64 SP1,
After Effects lets me render to QT, but,
MjpgB gives a lot of errors, Animation works fine.

There are indeed a lot of compatibility issues on X64.
Just install all your most recent drivers !
Or try downloading an older QT version from the apple website, that worked with some people !

cya,

Jan

[Jan Sherlink]

Try Stu Maschwitz’s filmburn,
you can easily adjust it to your needs !

https://prolost.blogspot.com/2006/11/film-burn.html

cya,

Jan

[Jan Sherlink]

Working with uncompressed SD shouldn’t be a problem.
If you use a lot of Video-layers in your comp Nucleo (don’t know about Nucleo Pro) may need several seconds for caching files, after that renderspeed will increase.
Gridiron advises that the NucleoPro-cache should be set on a raid too.
Rendering my output to a separate disk also increased performance a bit.

cya,

Jan

[Jan Sherlink]

And don’t forget the hard disks !
Playing with AE7 and Nucleo on a dualcore quickly made clear that the speed-increase depended on my project type.
Rendering with six 1080p uncompressed sources in my Comp made my 3disk Raid-0 the bottleneck of the system.

cya,

Jan