Speeding Up Render Times in Premier

[erickdt]

Hi All,

 

I was wondering if anyone can give me some pointers on speeding up rendering times in Premier and After Effects CS5. I am currently rendering out a WIP of what is so far a 1 minute animation (in Premier) and it's projected to take about an hour. When I open up the task manager to see how much of my system resources are being used up by rendering niether my system memory (8GB) of processors (dual quads) are even close to maxed out. I've got plenty of time on this project so it's not a really pressing issue right now but I thought it might be wise to look for a solution now rather than when I was in a time crunch.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

E

[Fooch]

I can help a little in AE.

 

Quick Qns. Are you importing the AE file directly into Premiere. If so, 1 hr for a 1 min animation should be about right.

It does take a fair bit to churn through 1 min worth of animation. (1 min = 60 seconds = 60 x 25 (PAL) or 30 fps (NTFS) = 1500 or 1800) With that, 1800 frames (I presume you are NTFS 29.97 fps) equals to around 30ish frames every second .. now thats rocket fast in my world

 

GENERAL TIPS

Network speeds =

Cat6 cables .. Plus check if your switch isnt an old version.

If you need it quick, do it locally.

Keep it all on 1 hard disk. Accessing multiple disks across different networks does crunch a little.

Give enough cache space in premiere (just in case)

 

AE TIPS

This is the one bit i can help you crank up render time.

 

Set to multimachines and export to frames (tga frames for lossless) if you have more than one machine. This way you can use multiple machines to render it

Give this a try if you have backburner setup = http://www.monologue.gr/tutorials/monologue-ae-render-manager/

 

Simple tips for motion graphics stuff. Do not use files with resolution over 2,500 K .. Ae can get sluggish after that.

Frame blending, particles etc.. pre-render these and reimport them with alpha (tga frames)

 

Another thing you can do is purge after every few frames for crashing files.

Use the secret setting in aftereffects (yes, it exists)

http://www.onoff.ch/2008/06/21/secret-after-effects-settings/

Set it to purge after 50 frames etc ..

for the mad heavy comps.

 

 

 

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[erickdt]

Thanks Fooch for your help with this and my other thread. I really appreciate it. I expect I'll be able to test these methods sometime today. I'll let you know how it all works out.

 

E

[Fooch]

no dramas.. gluck