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Jim Zarbaugh
December 5, 2013 at 2:33 am in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

Dean,

I posted memory and multiprocessing info, but still not sure what the disc configuration is. If you get a chance, can you take a look and give me your opinion? It would really help.

I am currently re-compressing all my animation files to about one sixth the data size. I can hardly tell the difference visually- I am really quite shocked. However, how this will help the final product render is still left to be seen.

Thanks again
Jim Zarbaugh
December 5, 2013 at 2:29 am in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

Walter- I posted my multiprocessing and memory info. If you get a chance, let me know what you think. I really just now enough about the technical side to do more harm than good.
Jim Zarbaugh
December 4, 2013 at 11:59 pm in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

So the settings look OK?

Thanks- I think breaking it into smaller pieces for render is a good idea.
Jim Zarbaugh
December 4, 2013 at 11:02 pm in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

The two 1080×1920 videos will be shown on the IMAG screens and will be interlaced. The videos prepared for the LED screens are progressive. That is a total of four videos. Sorry for the mix up.
Jim Zarbaugh
December 4, 2013 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

Dave,

The delivery is two 1080i videos, one 2952 x 360 progressive and one 3456 x 720 progressive- all at 29.97 fps and ProRes 422. I’m not sure of the playback device as we hire that out for this event, but it is pretty high tech stuff. They requested the size and codec and will split the videos into a coule different pieces in order to distribute them across the large LED walls. I can send the spec sheet if it would really help.

As far as my AE settings go, I have enabled disk cache with a max size of 100 GB. the output is AJA KONA3 1080psf 29.97 10 bit RGB. Here is a screenshot of the RAM data.

Not all the computers I am using have the same specs, but getting this one right will help me with all of them.

Thanks again, everyone!
Jim Zarbaugh
December 4, 2013 at 3:42 pm in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

Dean,

I’m not at the computer right now, and I’m not even sure what disc configuration even is. However, I CAN find out for you. I’m pretty sure we all have Aja Kona cards at work. I don’t know my cache/multiprocessing setting are off hand, but I will say that my limited knowledge of such things makes me believe that I probably set the number high thinking erroneously that I would get more out of it. I know I have it rendering more than one frame at a time, though I have not seen the benefits of such a thing. Of you have any suggested settings, that might really help.

The previews are at the point where I am watching at 1/4 or even custom (1/6 or 1/10). It is pretty rough. I purge the cache regularly, as it obviously fills up quickly.

I’ll try and get the rest of that info you as soon as I can. Thanks for the help.
Jim Zarbaugh
December 4, 2013 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Massive Render Strain and a Need to Fix That NOW.

UPDATE: After a couple hours of sleeping at my desk, I am looking at this with new bloodshot eyes. I think the true culprit here is the comp size. Well, there are many culprits, but the comp size may be the first to go. I think I can copy my master comp four times and trim each screen down to the area of importance.

The question is, how important is it to delete any files that are not seen on screen? Is it enough to turn them off? Or is it so bad that I even need to trim down my used layers so that they are only as long as necessary?

Oh- And I’m pretty sure they used the old “Let’s tell Jim that dress rehearsal is two days earlier so that maybe we can get the project finished on time” trick. So while sad, as least I have that.

Thanks again for anyone who is spending any brain power on this!

Jim
Jim Zarbaugh
September 13, 2013 at 12:32 am in reply to: Source Text formatting using expression

Dan,

I am a bit of a rookie when it comes to expressions. I was hoping to use it, but I guess I need an example of where to place it. I realize that this expression may be outdated since changes are made all the time, but I couldn’t get this to work no matter where I placed it.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Jim