A good SSD could be up to 3x faster if on a SATA 6GB connection. Of course you will lose the capacity unless you spend a lot. Additionally there are some very render intensive settings in form - watch your particle count and make sure things are turned down to the minimum that looks ok, then crank the quality for the final. Work in 8bit color, tweak your MP settings, etc. 

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Evan Fotis <evan.fotis@gmail.com> wrote:

A two 1TB drive RAID0 is used for cache at the moment. Would an SSD be speedier?
Right now the queue shows an average of 11sec/frame, giving an estimate 3H,47M and going up to complete the 1609 frames...
curiously cpu usage is not maxed though (about 50-60%) i remember on other projects it hit 100% and stayed pegged there...
will definitely have to change some settings when done.

On 16-Aug-13 23:12, Todd Kopriva wrote:

If you’re rerendering something to incorporate changes, then you really want to be using the disk cache, since that will re-use previously rendered elements when they’re unchanged. Having the disk cache on a  fast SSD really helps there.

 

Of course, this is only true on After Effects CS6 and later. Also, if on After Effects CS6, make sure that you’ve installed the updates. There are a lot of cache fixes in them. The Trapcode plug-ins also have had some cache-related fixes, so be sure that you’re up to date on them, too.

 

 

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Evan Fotis <evan.fotis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,
have some heavy comps here using TC Form etc, and even at 720p, rendering one a one minute comp takes well over an hour and half to finish...
Since there is a lot of back n forth discussing, rerendering etc, what could be the best way to speed up render times without changing the project?
I could  get to add something in the machine, but not much, like an ssd for cache or new gpu at most, but would these help at all? or OC perhaps..
thanx

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