| Whoops! I missed that. My bad! You said what I was getting at, though, which is that there's too much media to fit onto an SSD.
Stephen, is there any chance you can make your client render the file out on his end and then provide you with a huge quicktime (12bpc log prores, perhaps) that you can use as the source for the DCP? How long is AE saying the render will take after it manages to open the project?
-bH On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
he said the raw files are over 2.5 TB of media. The slowdown probably comes from reading the individual files off your media storage to assemble the sequence. I have run into this problem with sequences, but never on this scale. The SSD wouldn't help much if you only plan on having the project file on it. You'd need a 2.5 TB SSD. Hope the client has a couple hundred thousand dollars on hand...
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Brian Higgins <higgins@soldesignfx.com> wrote:
How much media do you have? If you're saying that the project file + media are 1.5GB, an SSD probably won't help you that much. My guess is that the long load times are from AE having to process the camera raw files into usable pixels. Raw flexibility comes with a heavy performance hit!
JPG Proxies were used for the assembly/online. But render all have been replaced with RAW for a final CC – client did that – I’m just doing the DCP render but have to open/close the file a number of times, save. It takes several minutes to save.
I’m going to do short render test but I’m thinking of charging the client for an SSD drive.
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Jesus christ. Buy a mainframe from IBM? Honestly the only thing I can think of is to bake the pics from .raw to JPG proxies. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote:
I’ve got a client supplied AE CS6 project file that is 1.5Gb – takes an hour and half to open. It’s a 37 minute 4K film that I’m creating a DCP. It’s already reduced. It’s created from DSLR pics – 2.6 TB of RAW files.
Any under the hood performance tweaks that might help AE handle the file better? The render machine I have does not have a SSD unfortunately which would help a bit with load times it appears the load is mostly checking the 2.6 TB of RAW files.
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