Eternal Render

[MTWarren]

I've got a 5:21 green-screened shot that I believe will never actually finish rendering. I've got 3 chroma filters as a garbage matte and a keylight filter and that's it. I've not tried this before, someone suggested that it'd make for faster renders. I'm using AE CS4 on a 2.6hz 4-core MacPro on Leopard.

The first frames rendered at what I consider to be a normal speed. The estimated time remaining was about 5 hours when I went home. This morning, 17 hours after it started, it's only about 1/8th done and it's estimating 99 hours, 58 minutes remaining.

My source clip is a 1080x1920 (yes, it really is 9:16, not 16:9) quicktime movie in the animation codec. I'm exporting a 1080x1920 pre-matted quicktime movie in the animation codec.

[Ben Wotton]

try photo jpeg, still good quality but smaller and faster

[MTWarren]

Thread necromancy:

I usually use photojpeg for my outputs, but I need the alpha channel on this one. Can I do that with Photojpeg?

I did get it solved though, changing the codec did the trick. I used animation instead of whatever I was trying back then.

[Ertai23]

Jpg-files have no alpha channel. Png-files do.