After Effects Render time extremely long

I am trying to render an After Effects CS6 composition that is 40 seconds long and 1080p with no video footage, just particle animation and logo. However when I add the comp to the render queue and begin the render, the estimated time shows 32 Hours! At the bootom it says 47% ram jused of 7.9 GB. What is going wrong?

Raj Nagar wrote:
Thanks for that, I don't have it on ray-traced 3d because in the top corner on the left it says Renderer: Classic 3d. So i think that seems fine, but I have 8 GB ram with second gen Core i5 boosted to 3.1 Ghz so i don't think that the setup is a problem.
As for the particles, they branch out in lines like branches into a circle. But I still think that 32h is overkill. Even after using the Quicktime codec with the H.264 setting, it still says 30+ hours.
Don't render to H.264. That requires huge amounts of processing overhead on top fo the rendering.
Make a duplicate of your comp. Set the end point to about 10 seconds. Turn off 75% of the layers. Render to the simplest codc in the selection, say, ProRes422LT.
Turn off layers and turn on 25% of the other layers. Render again.
Turn on the other 25%. Render
Turn on the last 25%. Render.
Now you should have a good idea of which layers or effects are messing you up. Tell us about it and we'll probably have some helpful suggestions.

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