How to render/export fast in Adobe After Effects CC

[popoqwerty]

Hi,

How can I export and render fast in Adobe After Effects, I bought a new PC but it's not quick enough in my opinion.

I want to export a 1920*1080 60FPS project, 10 seconds long. It takes a very long time.

I have already set my GPU as processor but if I start the render and look at my GPU usage, After Effects won't use it.

Screenshots of my project and settings:

Project - https://snapr.pw/i/b18473e4cc.png

Momory - https://snapr.pw/i/e92cb228a9.png

Cache - https://snapr.pw/i/30addc6d0c.png

GPU - https://snapr.pw/i/2b36b10748.png

Computer system: popoqwerty - Profiel - Tweakers

CPU - Intel Core i7- 8520K six-core

GPU - Asus GTX 780 OC 6GB STRIX

MOBO - Asus X99-A

RAM - 16GB Crucial

SSD - Samsung SSD PRO 850

HDD - WD Black 2TB

[Dave_LaRonde]

Please specify what the term, "a very long time" means to you.

Also please tell us what's in your comp: lights, layers, effects used,  comp resolution.

Unless there's something wrong with your software installation,  Newcomers to AE often think that "too long" is synonemous with "not instantaneous".  Everything could be just fine.

[popoqwerty]

A ''verry long time'' is 10 minutes for a 10 second video.

Resolution: 1920x1080 pixels with 60FPS.

I used effects like Wiggle, Fractal Noise, Tint, Curves, Grain.

Here is the video:

[Dave_LaRonde]

Sounds about right to me.  Welcome to After Effects.

[bogiesan]

And if you add lights or change a few of those elements to 3D layers your processing time will be multiplied by about 9 or 18 or 27.

Welcome to the family.

You might need to dramatically reduce your expectations.

There are hundreds of threads here and on other forums about speeding up AE (but you really have no idea what it's like these days compared to when I started. There was a time when it took a weekend to render one effect on one layer.)

DV was about 350,000 pixels a frame, 30 frames a second and even then we complained about how sluggish some effects could be. HD is about 2,000,000 pixels a frame at 60 frames second. 2k, 4, and 6k are unimaginably computationally dense. What we have learned how to do is pre-viz, edit, and compose and plan in low rez, prerender whenever possible, and carefully manage resources like RAM and eliminate system and bus bottlenecks where possible. Most of us don't bother with those steps these days because of our absurdly powerful Macintosh/PC systems.

[Mylenium]

To confirm what the others said: Nothing wrong with your render times. Depending on how heavy your project is, you can render 10 minutes or more per frame even...

Mylenium

[Rick Gerard]

‌Grain can be slow to render.  As you get more experience you will learn where the bottlenecks are and figure out how to work around them.  For my really complex composits I try and keep renders to five minutes per frame or less. General motion graphics I try to keep under a minute. When it comes to rendering making expectations match reality takes a while to get a handle on.

[bogiesan]

Ah, grain.

You can prerender a movie of grain and blend it over other footage.

[Todd_Kopriva · Accepted solution]

> How can I export and render fast in Adobe After Effects,

See this page for resources about making After Effects work faster: http://adobe.ly/eV2zE7

> I have already set my GPU as processor but if I start the render and look at my GPU usage, After Effects won't use it.

After Effects uses the GPU for almost nothing. See this page for details of GPU features in After Effects:

GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects

> A ''verry long time'' is 10 minutes for a 10 second video.

10 minutes is not a long time for a 10-second movie with visual effects, compositing, 3D, or many other kinds of computationally intensive processing. Often, people leave 30-second movies overnight or over the weekend to render. This is true for all aoftware that does this kind of work, not just After Effects.

[AndyN10-qEt76i]

• Hi everyone I have Adobe After Effects cc 2015 I make a video about 5 minutes long or 3 minutes long without effects It takes a very long time, about 6 to 8 hours and sometimes more and the video size it's 55.4 GB i think my computer it's not good and even if i change the format to QuickTime or H.264 still the same please help or let me know if i need more RAM or anything to make it faster thank you this is the pics

[Roei Tzoref]

Hi everyone I have Adobe After Effects cc 2015 I make a video about 5 minutes long or 3 minutes long without effects It takes a very long time, about 6 to 8 hours and sometimes more and the video size it's 55.4 GB

you should first start by reading this:

FAQ: Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player?

even if i change the format to QuickTime or H.264 still the same

Don't do that. use Adobe Media encoder.

[AndyN10-qEt76i]

What about the settings are they all good or should i change it and Do i need more RAM?

[Roei Tzoref]

8 Ram is quite the minimum but this should not take too much toll on your render times, just previews. slow is relative - what do you have there? what effects? resolution? need more information here. also 3 minuets or 5 minutes is a long duration for after effects.

see here for system requirements for after effects: After Effects System Requirements for Mac OS and Windows