CPU usage only 4-7%

[postolachir47039788]

Hello i am an youtubber and recently i switched to Affter Effects to render files and whatever i need, but my experience until now wasnt so great, for the first time i rendered a 4 min song it takes me like 7 hours and still has a lot until its done, 10 or 11 hours for sure. Can someone help me understund where is the problem ?

I almost forgot to mention the GPU usage its 0-1 %. I attached 5 screenshoot with my specs and the format of the video i am encoding ! The animation its not elaborated, its just a spectrum reacting to the bass with particles, it's a low profile template thats why i am not understunding why it takes soo much !

[Rick Gerard]

Rendering time depends on what is going on in the frame and what you are doing in the comp. After Effects processes one frame at a time and does not utilize all cores or all resources. There is very little need to do so when you are only calculating the pixels in a single HD frame.

After effects is not an NLE and should never be used for editing a movie. AE is for creating composites, animations and motion graphics that you edit into a final product in another app. If your 7-minute movie is 1 shot with several effects applied then seven hours of rendering for that specific composition may be entirely normal and the only option you have. If there are several shots in the comp and some of them could be processed in Premiere Pro then you should split things up. I do VFX composites all the time that take one or two minutes a frame to render. If my render takes longer than six or seven minutes a frame I redesign the shot. More than 90% of my VFX comps are one shot that is under seven seconds. Most of my animation projects are broken up into shots or sequences that are no longer than a sentence or phrase of narration. I would guess that the longest would be no more than 15 seconds. All of those parts are assembled in Premiere Pro.

If you do a lot of rendering I suggest that you invest a hundred bucks in RenderGarden | by Mekajiki. It splits comps up your comp and assigns each section to the available cores you specify. Rendering is at least twice as fast and you can keep working in AE without any noticeable slowdown. Adding an MP4 and Production master to the render only adds a tiny bit to the render time. Most of my renders are done in about 1/4 the time it would take to get them done any other way. I never sit around and wait for renders.

If you need specific help trying to speed up your workflow then we need complete workflow, system and render details. Just showing us the performance charts isn't helpful.