Speed up render times

[Lucas]

Hey CMN,

I got a question, How can I speed up my render times in software such as AfterFX and Premiere.

Attached is a DXDIAG.txt which contains all my system specs.

They just take sooo long.

My MOBO is a Albatron PX945P 2.0

My RAM is in Dual Channel mode

Thanks guys

[brenthomer]

Time to build a render farm....

I think adobe will let you use 3 systems for free in a renderfarm. There are even plug ins that will let the renderfarm help render your preview composition window in real time.

[Steve G.]

If your willing to spend mula, here you are!

[Lucas]

Steve, DV out means nothing to me, I don't own any DV hardware.

And besides, SongShow Plus doesn't like Matrox cards anyway.

I'm thinking going to a Dualie

[bladeaudio]

Dual processors, unfortunatly, don't improve AE or Premiere render times. I have a dual core-dual xeon system (ie 4 processors) and it's obvious by watching the system resources that both programs only use one processor to render. Your best bet is a faster processor and more RAM.

I did find a free script for AE that spawns renderers (is that a word?) in the background that run in seperate processes and do speed up the amount of render time. I forget where I got it, but you can probably find it by doing some google searches.

[AlexH237]

A few tips:

When doing a render (from the render Q) put on caps lock. It will make it show it won't show you what is rendering but it is much faster. You can jurn it off and on again if you want to see how far it is.

Also you can go to the "secret" preferences menu. Hold down shift, click edit, click preferences and choose anyone. When the menu pops up let go of shift, click the drop down box and choose secret. Be careful though, I'm not sure what they do and I know one of the options crashes your PC if you don't do it right.

[whzkid]

Hate to burst your bubble Steve, but the Matrox RTx.100 card will not render video footage for AE. Lucas what you need to look for is a Nvidia card that has a wide memory bandwidth something on the order of greater than 40 GB per second. I just bought a 8800 GTS 320MB card that has 64GB memory bandwidth per second and it is AWESOME in AE rendering time.


Best,

Rob

[MPCC Media]

The best thing to do is to close any running programs like Messenger, Dell Help, Anti-Virus (just don't surf the web while you render), Google Desktop is a huge slowdown. iTunes, Media Player, basically anything that's running in the background can slow it down drastically.

I know this because my PC is almost identical to yours, we have same system RAM, video RAM from nVidia, hard drive space and such.

Also, might try defragmenting your Hard Drive.

[NGRRFan]

Find the program EndItAll2 on the web and run that before doing any rendering.

[Kinetic Studios]

I use a Mac so, I am not that familiar with Windows but there is a program that I use and several of my colleagues use called Nucleo Pro. It works on both the Windows and Mac platforms and takes advantage of multi-core or multiprocessor systems. I do not think it supports Premiere but it works great in After Effect and Maya, it also supports a few other programs. It runs $395 and can be located at:

http://www.gridironsoftware.com/

Hope this is of some help, although shorter render times will cut-down on trips to Starbucks.

[rev_65]

I use Nucleo Pro as well in AE to take full advantage of dual core processing. There are several other features that make this a worthwhile investment like background rendering, etc. I usually batch everything for the day then hit render as I turn in for the night.

[Lucas]

*Lucas falls off his seat*

$439!!!
I don't care how good Nucleo Pro is, it's not worth that for me.