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Is this just the way it is or am I doing it wrong.

May 22, 2012 2:00 PM

Hi all.

 

While everything works just fine, whenever I have a dynamic link to AE the render times can be, well, painful. So today I tried something. I rendered the same opening sequence out, as a lossless best setting (AVI 1920X1080) in AE and it took 59 seconds. I imported it into my PPro sequence and rendered it out as .264 and that took 27 seconds.

 

If I have a dynamic link to the same sequence in AE from PPro the render is around 17 minutes.

 

Am I doing sometihng wrong ? Or is that the price you pay for convenience ?

 

System Setup

AMD 955BE Phenom II Quad Core

16GB of 1600 Ram

EVGA GTX560

HDD are 3 X 1 TB, OS, Source and Target.

392 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: Jim Simon, May 23, 2012 9:10 AM
 
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    1. Jim Simon,
    May 22, 2012 7:03 PM   in reply to deimosphobos
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    Am I doing sometihng wrong ? Or is that the price you pay for convenience ?

     

    I'm inclined to believe the former.  My own tests showed the same render times for both methods (just slightly faster from PP, actually).

     

    Do you have hardware acceleration active?  Did you have Max Render Quality checked in the PP export?

     
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    2. deimosphobos,
    May 23, 2012 6:02 AM   in reply to Jim Simon
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    Hi, yes, I have GPU active but I have noticed that when I render the dynamic link to AE, the GPU is only used very lightly, 2-5%. I don't have Max Render Quality checked.

     

    So you see the same render times, for a dynamic link and a straight up AE render, that gives me hope, I'll scratch around a little more. I typically run with all defaults and have not set many preferences outside of that.

     

    Should have added this in the first post, this is CS5.5

     
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    3. Jim Simon,
    May 23, 2012 9:10 AM   in reply to deimosphobos
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    I don't have 5.5, but I tested in both 5 and 6.  In both cases, the PP export was actually a little faster than the direct AE export using the same export settings.

     
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