Hasta La Motion!

Here’s the basic setup:

Project centres around a 6000×6000 photoshop file containing 50-60 layers.

Imported into a composition in AE, then nested into a final HDTV 1080 25 FPS 60s composition along with some other minor bits and pieces.

Only a few animated elements in the project (majority of PS layers are imported as static elements). Have pre-rendered as much as I can. However when I go to render the final comp it basically won’t start rendering at all, and I can’t work out for the life of me what’s in the comp that is killing it. I can only assume its the size of all these layers. I tried pre-comping some groups of layers and pre-rendering but because of the size restrictions I could only precomp using QT Animation (which results in a extra large file size) and it’s simply taking up too much space and time for what the final deliverable is.

I’m guessing there’s probably some stuff I could have done with the original setup in PS to have saved me the frustration now, but the horse has bolted so to speak. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions that might help get this thing to render eg. reimporting PS layers in another form or whatever (already doing all the standard Adobe performance maximisation things so no need to suggest them). Hopefully I’ve provided enough info here.

Thanks

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I’m wondering does anyone know of any plugins for AE or tutorials for post motion blur with vector passes?

Or do you guys prefer to render the Motion blur in your 3d package? we do that right now but the rendering times are outrageous, thats why we got RSMB but it looks awful…any suggestions would be very appreciated.

I have access to a great green screen studio on campus. And the shot doesn’t have to be a long one. I guess one way is to have them lie down and mask the object theyre lying on, then after effects them to look like theyre floating. It’s just the close ups / medium shots of them lifting up and floating down is harder to shoot.

We just want to make it look like one of the characters calls the other, and floats them over (in an outside, wooded setting.) If you could help me out, I’d truly appreciate it.