[Lisa Simonson]

I will try that Joe!
If the computer crashes after 7 sec or so and I begin the tif render again @ current frame in timeline will the tifs still be in sequence?

Thanks!

[Lisa Simonson]

I appreciate your help!

I have rendered fairly large projects from this computer before. This time though I maybe went a little overboard. The comp is made up of pre comps and only a few are 3D.

My computer:
Dual 1.25 GH powerPC G4 2 MB L3 cache per processor
memory 2 GB DDR SDRAM

Would enabling disk cache set to en external HD work? Last night the render crashed my computer after 5 hours with only 7 seconds completed.

Eeeesh!

I wouldn’t be freaking out if the deadline wasn’t looming just over the horizon.

[Lisa Simonson]

Wondering if rendering out as tif sequence and re-importing would be better?

[Lisa Simonson]

Thanks Todd. I think it does have to do with my computer. Right now trying to render 45 sec w animation compression and render time is 22 hours! Possibly because I used many 3D layers on my older mac G4 ? at an rate, I can’t wait so I’ll have to change compression.

[Lisa Simonson]

Thanks for the tips!