Jason Kupski
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Michael,
Thanks a lot for your reply i appreciate it. In answer to your questions:- If your output is intended only to be standard definition, then sure. Depending on what AVI codec you used.
As a side question, when you say “ripped” do you mean captured?I used the standard Video For Windows with No Compression. Should I have used another codec? It is my limited understanding that since AE doesn’t do multi-pass I should use another program for compressing to mpg. I’ll definitely try your suggestions of the QT PNG format
Yes, I meant captured, sorry about that!
- Uncompressed video takes up a ton of space. I do animations that are 2 Gigs in size and they’re around 20 seconds long.
That’s good to know, i wasn’t expecting such a lengthy render time and such a large file size. I didn’t know if i had an incorrect setting or was doing something improperly.
- However, your source is HD interlaced. Why not try some tests?
That sounds like a good idea. I was planning on doing that if I couldn’t find a definitive answer.- If you use Quicktime with the PNG codec you will get smaller file sizes than straight uncompressed AVI even though they’re both lossless.
I will have to try that, smaller file sizes would be beneficial.
- I would always suggest at least 2 GB of RAM per core. Here’s an Adobe employee explaining it. Here’s info on optimizing your system.
I read through that a few times and did some prelim testing. I tried 2 cores for multi w/ 2+ gigs of ram allocated to background processes and then 3 cores with 1.5. (as well as a couple of others). Once i changed the settings i started the render and looked at the render time length. After changing it to 3 cores w/ 1.5 (and the other settings mentioned before) it seemed to drop the estimated render time by a significant 15-20 hours. I currently don’t know the ‘long term’ affects of changing it to 1.5 gigs but after 7 hours of rendering everything seemed to be working fine. If/when i end up doing a lot more editing in the future i’ll stick another 6 gigs of ram into the system. (although it will reduce my ram speed)
One question i couldn’t find an answer for though was Prevent DLL Address Space Fragmentation… whats considered a large amount of memory?
I’ve spent many hours on the help.adobe.com site and followed most of the suggestions on Getting Started with After Effects.Those total training DVD’s are quite expensive. I was thinking of getting a subscription to Lynda or VTC (i’ve used both in the past for other programs). They’re a lot less expensive and once I work through those I may pick up the total training.
Anyways, thanks again for the assistance!
j - If your output is intended only to be standard definition, then sure. Depending on what AVI codec you used.
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Oh before I offend anyone, (or maybe it’s too late) I did go through a lot of beginner tutorials (videocopilot, AEtuts), spent many hours on help.adobe.com, went through all of the tutorials at redgiant and countless others. My questions are ones that I either found conflicting information for or could not find a clear answer.
Thanks!
j