Jeremy Fabiano
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No one will likely be able to help unless they have some more information…
We see by the title you’re on AE-CS4 – BUT!
what’s in the comp?
What operating system?
How much ram?
How many cpus?
How fast cpus?
Do you have a crappy video card?
Do you have 9 bajillion programs running?
Is your HD full?
Do you have a virus?
Do you have multiprocessing enabled and didn’t leave any ram for the os?I’m sure I missed a bunch, but any one of those, or combination of any of those could attribute to a failed render.
Heck, AE might just be complaining about the type of video you’ve imported.. It hisses at certain codecs:
Dave LaRonde”s Stock Answer #1:
"If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- footage in an HDV acquisition codec, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems."
Get back to us with some more information so we can help you out 🙂
-Jeremy
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File transfer, read times, write times, general access times.
Files load faster in general. The only area it might help with rendering and such is if you’re using your HD for cache, at which point it should be able to read/write to the disk cache faster.
Well.. it also might help the rendering speed at least slightly in the area of writing image sequences faster (but not the rendering itself). I noticed on my 5400 rpm drive it’s a LOT slower doing image sequences than my 7200 rpm drive.
Should be able to load programs faster as well.
I’ll have them in my catalog soon, but they are available around the net.
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could also be format related… search for dave laronde’s “stock answer #1” i believe its called.. he lists all the formats that ae hisses at…
-Jeremy
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Yeah I’d be up for a sample, gives a fresh perspective too on things you might not have thought about 🙂 I always welcome a second (and third.. and fourth..and..) opinion hehe
Sometimes it’s your friends, family and colleagues that trigger a thought that turns something awesome into something spectacular.
-Jeremy
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Andrew has some nice motion tracking tutorials somewhere on his site, also his meteor tutorial is VERY detailed (all 6 of them 😀 ), might be worth a look.
As for the motion tracking being a bear.. well as long as your footage doesn’t become blurry (not being able to track the reference points you SHOULD be fine. Should be able to stabilize it, add the fx, then remove the stability.
Just don’t forget to use the motion tile and hit mirror edges on the last bit, or you might have the shot moving off of the comp and showing black in the back.
And how is action essentials two? Haven’t had a chance to get a copy yet..
-Jeremy
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LOL
Your PC is better than mine and I can edit that res w/out problems (With less ram than you have). Of course I haven’t tried any really long things, longest I’ve had to do is a few FX shots at about 30-45 seconds long. If you already have afterfx I’d try to acquire some footage in the length you’re looking to be working on and see how it feels.
Main reason I say that, is a lot of times the program will still work with the more intensive clips, but SPEED and LAGTIME will be different.
Also, what’s blazing fast for me, might be slower than molasses in the winter for you depending on what you’re used to..
As for the rest of your questions:
Win7 + AE? Don’t know, I don’t have any experience with Win7 yet. I’m sure someone on here’s tried it and could be a little more useful.
Your HD? Well, you have 3 times more HD than I do.. and I’m doing fine. It really depends on what you’re going to be using it for.
But yes, in MY perfect world (in layman’s terms: if i was getting paid) , there’d be a second hard drive just for my video stuff (1tb-3tb) AND in my opinion I’d say another HD dedicated to AE cache and Windows Swap File.
I have noticed a significant increase in performance by moving those to another HD *on another channel*
New toy just out: Sata 10k RPM hd’s. Might be something worth looking into – the difference between a 5400 rpm and a 7200 rpm is very very noticeable.. and I work on 10k and 15k rpm SCSI drives.. It’s a MASSIVE difference in performance (in my opinion).
Well, that’s my point of view, granted I don’t have ‘commercial’ experience, but I do own/run a PC shop so…….. yea.
Hope that helps 😀
-Jeremy
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Hmm Maybe I will learn something from this too 😀
I have friends now asking me to do this for them.. odd how things always intersect in life..
Do you happen to have the link for that tutorial handy? At work and don’t have an overly large amount of time to go look for it currently 🙁
-Jeremy
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I haven’t tried this yet, but I plan to soon.
I did notice in your timeline though, I don’t see a background layer during the morph? Is this something that is needed?
I’ll look for that tutorial, I’ve had issues with missing one tiny part that’s monumentally important 🙁
-Jeremy
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Well hopefully this’ll help, it’s Bill O’Neil’s shadows tutorials part 1 & 2.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/shadows.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/shadows2.php
Good Luck!
-Jeremy
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https://magazine.creativecow.net/article/building-a-3d-world-in-after-effects
Grab a cup of _insert beverage here_ and sit down… its a long one..
A lot of great nifo though 🙂
-Jeremy