Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #48923
From: patrick Siemer <siemer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Best AE Render Settings for Long Footage
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:39:44 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
I agree...DNX HD, or Pro-res or Photo Jpeg compressors are super fast. Not as small as H264, but quality is great.

patrick siemer


On May 7, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Steve Oakley wrote:

> the answer is, it depends. maybe you are doing stuff that requires that long to render and the encode part is a minimal part of it.
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> is your storage fast enough ?
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> do you have MP enabled ? and have enough RAM for what you are rendering ?
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> have enough cores ?
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> what are your render settings ? HQ / draft, Full / 1/2 / 1/4 res ? Motion blur on ?
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> personally I'd probably output DNxHD 145 or ProRes LT unless you need to push the file across the net on a slower connection. even then it might be faster to output a ProRes file, then encode to h.264
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> S
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> On May 7, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Mr. Eric D. Kirk <kirkproductions@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hey Todd,
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>> You should be the expert here and to change subject a bit from that cloud discussion -  I am rendering just a draft of a feature length movie (about 70 mins).  I need it fast, low res, just for a rough cut.
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>> What do you recommend?  I could even go 640x480.
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>> Appreciate it.  Right now, I'm rendering 130K frames .mov, h264 and it looks like over 20 hours.
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>> Thanks
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>> Eric
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