After Effects 2024 slow rendering even when comp is fully cached to ram?

Question

Just wondering if something is going on and whether I'm missing something here. My comp caches to ram pretty quickly and 'pre-renders' in AE. However, when I hit render on a sequence from the queue - in this instance a PNG / JPG sequence - it takes ~25minutes to write out 360 frames.

The PNGs are about 5Mb each. The footage is FHD. I swear in older versions of AE this would have exported out in minutes due to it being cached already. I can't understand why it's taking so long.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Warren Heaton · Accepted Answer

You may find this article interesting:https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-performance-part-14-make-it-faster-for-free/ Scroll down to "Don't use PNGs". The article also gets into writing a frame from a cached render versus rendered from scratch.

Warren Heaton · Answer

How does the render time compare if you queue the Comp up again but use TIFF instead of PNG?

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