This thread purpose to gather user which got use Affect Effect to do rendering work. Kindly share your best setting in how to get the fastest rendering time with your current hardware (CPU, RAM, Storage media, etc).

There are secret in internet which customize the cpu-core and ram size in the setting which believe can improve rendering time.

Let me start my experience, I typically do AE for hobby purpose making slideshow with available slideshow templates;


template: Thunder
rendering time: 50min
hw: i7 3.5Ghz, 16gb ram, normal sata hdd
os: win7 64bit
memory & muiltiprocessing: ram for others app -3gb [16gb]; cpu for other app: 1 core [8cores]; ram for background -2gb; actual cpu use 5 cores
reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0kAnPNHDw

This post has been edited by jimlim007: Sep 7 2013, 05:38 PM

Affect? or After Effect?

I forgot where I found this information. I test it and it work.

"Just a quick comment, typically if one has the ability to purchase Quick Time Pro the best render settings are by far using the two programs together. A setting that found that works amazing is to render out your comp as a RAW uncompressed animation from AE using the .mov and animation uncompressed. From there, you can just open the file in quicktime and export from quicktime using the .mp4 with H.264 @ 7000-10,000 kbps and it will still play a 1080p video file without any loss in quality. The power in this is your very first export from after effects as a raw animation will be huge, but Quick Time will make it very small and even able to email as a 1080p video. An example from today, rendered out a raw animation from AE and the .mov file was 2.8GB. Once compressed it in Quicktime Pro using the settings mentioned above gave me a file size of 15MB and the file was 1080p with very very little quality changes."

This post has been edited by vixcacheras: Oct 12 2013, 02:30 PM

Thanks for sharing. Yup, the .mov file is totally take a lot of space. Do we need to purchase the quicktime Pro or it is a freeware?

You've to purchase the Pro version, which costs USD29.99