[Michael Hurley]

Thank you for the reply!

I have a psd for flourish that I used the writeon feature
I have a text layer for a countdown from 5:00 to 0:00
I have a some snow effects falling
I have a couple snow flakes that use the writeon feature and rotate with some opacity changes.
I have some adjustment layers with changing

Thats all, no film/movie clips of any kind

When I disable the flourish and snowflakes from the view ( They are in comps) the playback is normal
however when I enable them AE comes to a screeching halt. VERY slow and renders extremely slow.

I used a tutorial where they said that the layer needed to be converted into a comp maintaining all the ? can’t quite remember but now I’m stuck. I have a pretty good comp but can’t get it out or if I do it takes more than a day to render

Any thoughts?

[Michael Hurley]

I have an AE CS4 project that is 5min in length and the comp size is 720p it takes 33 hours to render with my macbook pro, 2.66 Core 2 duo with 4GB Ram & 256 GB Discreet Video Card, using an external 7200 rpm drive.

Is this typical? Using Adobe Premiere cs4 a five min clip would commonly take around and hour.

I’m new to AE and have started to produce some decent clips but cant seem to get a good export in a timely manner!

would love some feedback.

Thank you