How to fix extremely slow render in AE CS6?
Hi,
we've just upgraded from CS4 to CS6.
A composition that used to need 9 minutes to render, needs 2 hours now.
AE is updated and we don´t use the option "Render Multiple Frame Simultaneosly"
We've tried to delete different layers from the composition and the only way to improve rendering time is deleting wiggle expressions. Even if we transform these expressions to keyframes, the render lasts hours.
We need our wiggle expressions, how can we solve this problem?
Thank you very much!
What version of After Effects?
Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.2.11
Have you installed the recent updates?
Yes, the application is updated
What operating system?
Mac OSX 10.6.8
What kind(s) of source footage?
DV-PAL in a .mov container, .png graphics, .ai graphics, .psd graphics and .wav PCM audio
If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
There aren’t error messages
What were you doing when the problem occurred?
Rendering
Has this ever worked before? If this worked before by doesn't work now, what has changed on your computer in the intervening time?
Yes, it worked properly working with CS4 in the same computer.
Do you have QuickTime installed. If so, what version?
Yes, Quicktime 10.0 (131)
What other software are you running?
No other software running while rendering
Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed?
Trapcode Suite 2008
Tell us about your computer hardware. Include CPU type and number of processor cores, amount of RAM installed, GPU, number of disk drives, and how any external drives are connected.
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core intel Xenon
10 GB 800MHzNVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
System disk, data disk and lot of network drives
Do you have any third-party I/O hardware (e.g., AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU)?
No
Are you using OpenGL features in After Effects?
I think it’s not working (attached screenshot) but the graphic card is compatible with OpenGL 2.0. How can we solved this?
(GPU not available. Incompatible CUDA driver or device)
Does the problem only happen with your final output, RAM preview, or both?
Only with the final render
Are you using Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing?
No
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How to fix my slow, freezing Macbook Pro (2012 version)?
Hi! I bought my macbook pro in Jan 2013, it is the Mid 2012 version. Since yesterday, it is running super slow, and freezes constantly. I've deleted a lot of files from my computer and transferred them to a usb to clear out some place on the disk. Still, the mac is lagging and color wheel shows up for nearly anything I do on the computer.
Boot into your Mountain Lion Recovery partition (hold down the command and R keys whilst booting) and use Disk Utility to both repair permissions (there will be some that cannot be repaired - you can safely ignore these) and then verify your hard drive. Repair if necessary.
The type of slowness that you write about can sometimes - sometimes - be caused by a failing hard drive. Let's just hope you pass the verify test.
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Exporting to broadband extremely slow render
When I'm exporting a sequence to broadband quality it takes over 5 hours to export about an hour of video. How come its taking this long when I can export at full quality in only 12 minutes?
Think about it like this. You have a file that's 100MB, and you want to make another file in another codec that's 100MB. No problem. Simple transcode does it. Now you want to make a file that's 50MB. Takes twice as much work. Twice as much thinking and compression has to go on to reduce the file size. A lot of calculations have to be made to figure out how to throw out the data to make the file smaller. It can't simply trim off the last third of the movie. OK, now you want it to be 12MB. Now does it do that? A lot more thinking has to go into figuring out which bits of information can be thrown away and which can be preserved to make the file that small. The more compression you put into an image the more processing is required, the more calculations in determining pixels, and the more calculations the longer it takes.
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How to fix a slow mouse in Elements 13 editor
I purchased Elements 13 as my new camera was not supported by Elements 11 which I was currently using. The organiser works fine and I Like the new interface but when trying to use the image editor the mouse has terrible lag. Its almost impossible to select anything in the menu.
Elements 11 works fine and I can happily merge and align several RAW files without problems and the efficiency scale never drops bellow 100. I have an I5 machine with 8Gb of ram and windows 8.1. I assume the problem lies with Elements 13 as no other software is effected and the machine is really quick. I have found several other comments about the same problem but no solutions. Any idea's?You might try the Elements forum for more specific advice. This forum is for Photoshop.
In Photoshop you just make a new document (square, 200 - 300 pixels), draw your star (shape tool has a star in it), fill it with black, then go to Define Brush Preset. If elements can do it I'd guess it's pretty similar.
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