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Aly Levstein
Aly Levstein
Participant
October 7, 2022
Question

Rendering a 40 minutes animated video takes over 20 hours

  • October 7, 2022
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Hi, I'm currently working on a huge episode for a Youtube video podcast. The animation included consists of an intro, a background with moving shapes, 10+ pieces of text+photo/video, and a video roll of two people talking. I was trying to render it directly from After Effects through Media Encoder as h.264 with a 10-12 bitrate but it didn't work as the render would take 10+ hours or just get stuck somewhere on 75% with a remaining time increasing.
Then, I tried to do the same through Premier by exporting the final comp into the software and it would take even longer to render.
I'm using an updated Creative Cloud on a Macbook Pro with 8 GB of RAM and M1 chip. 
I'm confused and loosing hope, please help.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
October 8, 2022

Render a ProRes file or similar directly from AE and encode it in a second pass in AME. There is an elusive bug where DynamicLink based renders will slow to a crawl. that aside of course you cannot expect magic. Even than a 40 minute video can take a few hours. Every frame still needs to be processed and those seconds can accumulate...

 

Mylenium

    ToolfarmJP
    Community Expert
    ToolfarmJPCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 8, 2022

    If your CPU does not work efficiently, you have a choice to use a third-party utility like this below.

     

    https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/

     

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