Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #41733
From: Greg Balint <greg@delrazor.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Output codecs that don't support MP?
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:05:49 -0500
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Nope, just standard stuff plugin-wise..

It's one of those things that "ALWAYS" happens.. I just always wondered why..

go try rendering something in Quicktime PNG codec and see for yourself.. It happens on Macs and PCs as well..

just figured there mighta been something I wasn't doing correctly..

ultimately, I'd love to not have to render it out in one codec, then transcode to something else for my clients, as there's a second step there, and often I just give my clients a link to the dropbox folder I'm working out of and tell em the renders will be there in the morning and go to sleep..

Unless the transcoding goes superfast in Premiere.. which I've not looked into..

H.264 has never really given me output issues in AE (mp always works)

The only 2 I've found now, are DNxHD codecs and PNG codec.. (sucks when I need to render with alpha and save on file-space)


///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/

On 1/19/2012 9:48 PM, Teddy Gage wrote:

Have you tried premiere? I find it does a much better job for encoding/transcoding footage than ae, esp if you have a cuda enabled card. It will render h264 fully threaded for me, vs ae which seems finicky as to which projects will render mt

Also do you have any non mt effects running?

On Jan 19, 2012 8:03 PM, "Greg Balint" <greg@delrazor.com> wrote:
Hey all. I've spent a good bit of this month upgrading and tweaking my computer's settings to get the most out of multiprocessing in After Effects.  

I'm currently working on a project that is pretty graphically intensive and it's great to get the most out of my hardware. 

I go to make a final render for my client, who is using AVID for editing, and my computer chugs along one frame at a time instead of using multiprocessing for the render.   In AE I can RAM preview with full MP support, but this codec (DNxHD) and a few others I've found(like QuickTime PNG codec) seem to completely bypass multiprocessing and end up taking over an hour or more for something that should have only taken 10 minutes or less to render out. 

Am I completely alone in this? Is there any way around this without spending more time on the back-end transcoding videos into the codec my client needs?

Is there some magic setting I can check to use MP on these kinds of codecs? Or am I stuck in single processor mode?

////Greg Balint
///Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer

On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Byron Nash <byronnash@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for all the tips guys. I'm currently evaluating most of the ones suggested. I will report back on what we decide to go with.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Richard Green <Rich@loopcorp.com> wrote:
I like Studiometry. To some it may seem to be a petty problem, but of
all the ones I tried only Studiometry let me create properly styled
invoices rather than sending out something that looks like it came
from a builder's supply merchant.  And that same attention to design
applies to all the other reports that it can create.  Also has an ios
app that I use when out and about and syncs back to the main program.

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Cheers
Rich

www.loopcorp.com

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