Project with many adjustment layers taking an EXTREMELY long time to render. Any alternatives?

Question

I am making a basic 1080p video of me, talking, in my bedroom. I have many colorful lights in the background, and have probably around 40 adjustment layers masked to each light I want to alter. Things like the color change, lumetri color, hue/saturation, etc.

It is taking literally 3 hours to render a 7 minute video. And it's definitely the adjustment layers, because when I delete them, it renders quickly.

Are there ways to either speed up the render time, or are there alternatives to achieving what I want to achieve?

So, for example, I have various lights and lanterns in my background, and I have an adjustment layer for every one of them. I wish to be able to alter their brightness/hue/saturation, etc.

Just for reference, it is a static video. The camera doesn't move during the entire video, since it's just a conversational vlog.

Thanks!

Mylenium · Answer

Sounds like you may wish to produce a clean plate of the background at some point and then use green screen to add yourself on top. For now you have to accept things as they are, I suppose. Based on your description there's likely no way to optimize this für to how AE works. As a full buffer renderer it literally processes 40 layers from bottom how top in sequence and that takes time. Still, even the keyjng approach will take time should you get around to it. You're sort of caught between fire and flood on this one.

Mylenium

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