Jay Blanchard
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My apologies–I continued searching the forum and found the recommendation for MPEG Streamclip, which seems to work perfectly. Thanks to the CC FCP community!
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DigiEffects Aurorix is your best friend for this type of thing. Try a combination of “Video Look”, “Interferix” & “Interpheroid”. Probably my favorite plug-in for this type of effet is The Foundry’s “Bad TV” from the Tinderbox collection.
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Hiking up the contrast and saturation would be a good start; crush the blacks & add a fake fisheye effect.
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All right, so far, so good–I went back to each of my precomps and became more selective on what layers needed motion blur (it’s a bad habit of mine that I usually just turn on the blur for every layer on smaller projects–good lesson learned to stop doing that) and the renders are going MUCH faster now. I still haven’t rendered out the full comp, but all of the pre-renders are working fine & rendering quickly (10-30 minutes per comp) and the alphas seem to be transferring over fine to the main comp.
On another note, has anyone had any experience using the ReelSmart Motion Blur plug-in? Does it help lower render times?
Thank you to everyone for your help & advice; it’s greatly appreciated. Thank goodness for Creative Cow!
jay
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In the main comp, yes, all of my video files are QuickTimes. The main comp elements don’t seem to be giving me any issues though–it’s only crashing when it gets to the first frame of the big background precomps, which are all .AI files imported as comps & then animated.
After my current render finishes, I’m going to try to pre-render the next comp without motion blur to see the time difference. I’m guessing that’s what is causing the ridiculous render strain (my current comp has motion blur checked for every layer)
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Well, so far so good–I rebooted the computer and I’m able to render the precomps now. Unfortunately, it looks like I’ll be camping out at the office tonight–I have an estimated 3.5 hour render for just a single five second background layer precomp (out of a 1min. 40sec. piece).
I’m guessing my long render time is a result of the comp size & effects–would I save a substantial amount of time if I turned off the motion blur?
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It definitely looks like a memory issue–the error that I keep getting refers to AE not being able to create an image buffer for the precomps that I’m rendering out. Unfortunately, it’s not even allowing me to prerender them!
The strange thing is, I’ve been getting a second message saying “Memory requested=32101K Memory Available 30124K” I’m running 2GB of RAM, so I shouldn’t have an issue with it needing 32MB. Is there anyway that I can optimize my AE settings (or Windows settings–Virtual Memory maybe?) to help allocate resources to this render?
Thanks again for your help everyone.
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Ben–
Thanks for the fast reply; I am at home now, so I can’t give the exact wording of the error, but I’ll post it tomorrow morning.
I tried rendering out a test comp at home that was twice the size of the one at work & it worked fine. Which leads me to believe it is more likely a memory error. I am running a dual 3GHz processor machine with 2GB of RAM installed though, so I don’t know if upping memory would help.
I’m going to try pre-rendering tomorrow to see if that works & I’ll post my results. Thanks again for your input; it’s greatly appreciated & will help me sleep soundly tonight with rendering error nightmares! 🙂
jay
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Thanks for the quick reply John! I’m rendering right now, but I’ll try it out later tonight.
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I would use the write-on effect (reveal original) & maybe break up the characters into more easily maskable shapes in Photoshop first.