16 hours to Render!

searching on the forum, in a response of felt about BG render… I found this from BG Renderer script page: “If you are using CS3 or CS4 and CS5 have installed, Can you send your CS3 or CS4 rendering engine to render the CS5 to take advantage of the new 64-bit goodness while keeping your project work in the older version . “

buying right now! how I miss this?

BG Renderer is a life saver. Worth every penny.

Have a look at your render settings in general. Shadow casting lights may also be responsible. You can help this by turning off the shadow casting properties of any 3D layers that don’t make a significant difference to the look of the project.

Also, while 2D layers’ motion blur in AE is adaptive, this is not the case for 3D layers. Check the composition settings and see if you can turn this down.

One way if you have a comp with little movement, except in a couple of places is to use the Force Motion Blur effect and manually keyframe the number of iterations accordingly.

CS4 is also a nightmare for rendering anything with lights / shadows and DOF . It’s 32-bit memory addressing only allows a certain amount of memory to be used. Even when using multi-processor rendering, CS4 often bombs out and goes back to single processor.

The day that I can leave CS4 behind for good, I will be a very happy man.

Felt, your knowladge and willingness to help is amazing! Really thanks man! The motion blur I know that I can’t take of. But the Shadow option its great! I will take a look now, although I’m not using any light!

Thank you guys, is always fantastic to exchange information with you.

Maybe you are working in a 16bit or 32bit mode? That is A RENDER KILLER !

Mocarg said
Maybe you are working in a 16bit or 32bit mode? That is A RENDER KILLER !

No I’m using 8 bits!

3dbacks said
....one project – buy from here – for my customer – take 32hours so, don’t worry be happy….

almost same here, for me render time was 35 hours. and maybe same project, very short one…