After effects rendering time is extremely slow

hi,
i am having trouble with rendering in my after effect cs6. i have 8gb ram size on my mac book pro, which is extremely small for effectively ruunign after effects. i was thinking of getting an external hard drive and run the after effects through that instead. What size of should i go for and how do you go about running after effects on an external drive? is there any other way to optimize the perfromance of after effects?

See this page for resources about making After Effects work faster: http://adobe.ly/eV2zE7
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After Effects Rendering REALLLY Slow!?

So, i have a two minute clip, thats taking 3 Hours and 20 mins to download?! Heres some information that may help you help me out... :
Today, everythings just going really slow, i have no idea why. I have cleared my Cache and everything...I don't know what to do anymore.
Installed RAM: 7.82 GB
Current RAM Usage: 5.55 GB
Allowed RAM Usage: 6.32 GB
Process ID
Application Name
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Max Usable Memory
Max Allowed Memory
Current Memory
Current Priority
672
After Effects
0.40
7.82
6.32
5.55
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Y'know, for the past few days you've been crying and moaning about slow render times.
I went back & checked, and do you know how much information you've given to help us help you? Here's the answer: ALMOST NOTHING! And that is despite people asking you over and over again for certain information, and you ignore it! Do you LIKE not getting help?
You know what we know? You're running Win 8 and you have 8 gigs of RAM. You're rendering a 3-minute clip, and it's taking 10 hours. Well, lah-dee-dah. In AE terms, you might just as well have told us you're from Japan and you have red hair.
You want to know what we should know? Here's a list that will get the diagnostic process going:
The PRECISE version of AE you're using, right down to the last decimal place
The PRECISE version of your operating system, right down to the last decimal place
The identities of any third-part video cards
Got any drivers for these cards? What are their PRECISE version numbers?
The horizontal & vertical dimensions of your comps and frame rate
The media container (.mov, .avi, etc.) and codec(s) of the clips you're using
Got audio clips? wav, aiff, or something else?
What kind of still images are in the project? Bitmapped or vector? What are their horizontal & vertical dimensions? Are they RGB or CMYK?
What kind of effects are you trying to use?
Trying to use ray-tracing? You shouldn't.
Trying to use multiprocessing? You shouldn't.
This isn't an all-encompassing list, but it ain't bad. So toss the people here a bone and cough up some information, okay? Give us a fighting chance, and don't make us rely on crystal balls.

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.
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Captain Mench wrote:
Now -- if you need to export an alpha channel out of AE then you'll need some specific formats.
Good luck,
CaptM
Welcome home, Mench!
To maintain the alpha channel from AE, the OP will want to look up how to be using two codecs, Animation and ProRes 4444. Both are extensively described in the help system for FCP and After Effects or just google them for several hours of interesting reading. The OP will also need to understand the concept of an alpha channel which, come to think of it, was difficult for me.
bogiesan

Really my question is about after effects, which then renders to a quick time movie. I have imported music into after effects many times, and all of a sudden after import and playing it under ram preview, it stops about 4/5 through the work.

when I import a song into after effects it only plays 4/5 and then stops. I'm viewing it in RAM preview.
the composition time is fine.
can you help me???
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See this:
"FAQ: Why does RAM preview only play part of my composition?"

After Effects Rendering stops is away from PC

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Now im experiencing tremendous rendering time trough Adobe Premiere Pro 6-28 hours (for only 4 minutes of video), at the end the file is corrupted. After effects preview fawless, scrolling mouse at full resolution is very fast almost realtime.
Now i am experiencing extremely long time also with queue rendering. I've noticed that AE renders only if i'm moving the mouse if i stop moving rendering goes on "pause", with gpu and cpu at 100%.
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Hi Guys,
Just need some help. Here's my situation.
I own a 2.0GHz Duo Core Macbook Pro, with 1GB RAM,
and 128MB on my Radeon video card. I made a 30 second after effects (7.0 Professional, legit copy ) project last week, some simple camera fly thru's with motion blur and depth of field turned on. No other effects. It took me 4hours and 53 mins to render. Now here's my problem. I took the same project to work and rendered it on the Macpro that we have, it only takes 38 minutes.That's no suprise to me. But when i tried it on the MacBook Pro we also have at work,which is a core 2 duo, 2.33GhZ with 2GB RAM and 256MB Video Card, it only takes about 1 hour and 25 mins. So my question is, is my machine really that slow, 4 times longer than the 2.33Ghz MBP at work, or am i doing something wrong. The final output is uncompressed 8-bit. Please please help me! It's kinda frustrating... I'm running it on mac os x. Any after effects guru around? Or tweakmysters! Cheers guys!
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I tried it last nite, with the battery installed, it now take only about 2 hours and 30 minutes, 2 hours short!
It's amazing how things work, i've been trying to get a solution for this for weeks, everybody suggests something totally different. Some say i've got to upgrade my RAM and GPU RAM, others say different thingS. One guy even gave a long scientific explaination about my problem. Looks like the biggest problem has the simplest solution, eh? Thank you so much buddy! Will come to you with other problems in the future...heheheh...cheers!

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I'm not quite sure what you're saying. Are you saying that when you render from After Effects the audio sounds bad but the audio file that was in your composition doesn't sound that bad when you play it in other applications?
You aren't telling us what your original audio file is like or what your render settings are in After Effects, so we do not have a lot of information that we might need.
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