How To Double Your After Effects Render Speeds
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Putting it back together
In many cases, an image sequence is what you want to be working with, particularly if you're rendering in 16 bits per pixel. But, if you'll like to recontruct you're image sequence as a QuickTime movie (or other format), there are several east ways to do this.[an error occurred while processing this directive]The most simple is to open up QuickTime Pro. Choose FIle > Open Image Sequence, and select the first image in the sequence After Effects generated. The process takes almost no time at all.
When you're done, save or export the movie as you would any other QuickTime movie.
Alternately, if you don't have the Pro version of QuickTime, you can download one of the many free utilities available for doing this. Or you can use After Effects itself. To use After Effects, start a new composition and choose FIle > Import > File. Choose the first image in the sequence, and check the "Photoshop Sequence" (or other type of sequence) option in the dialog window.
Drag the footage onto your timeline, and render it as normal. The actual rendering of the imported sequence will take almost no time.
At this point, you're done. If you're feeling industrious, you can probably even set up an AppleScript to handle all of the preliminaries automatically for future renders. In either case, with just a little one-time setup, you will now experience renders at twice the normal speed on any dual-processor Mac. Now let's see how a Dell Precision workstation stacks up against your multiprocessing G4 powerhouse or your Xserve supercomputing cluster!
Contact the author: Dave Nagel is the producer of Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; host of several World Wide User Groups, including Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OS, Adobe InDesign, Adobe LiveMotion, Creative Mac and Digital Media Designer; and executive producer of the Digital Media Net family of publications. You can reach him at dnagel@digitalmedianet.com.
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