Improving Performance By Simplifying Your Project - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

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Choose Stiff Elasticity for the Mesh Warp, Reshape, and Smear effects in the Distort effects category.
See "Mesh Warp effect (Pro only)" on page 427, "Reshape effect (Pro only)" on page 430, and "Smear effect" on
page 433.
Turn off linear blending.
See "To enable linear blending" on page 66.

Improving performance by simplifying your project

By simplifying and dividing your project, you can prevent After Effects from using memory and other resources to
process elements other than those that you are currently working with. Also, by controlling when After Effects
performs certain processing, you can greatly improve overall performance. For example, you can avoid repeating an
action that needs to happen only once, or you can postpone an action until it is more convenient for you.
Do any of the following:
Delete unused elements from your project.
See "To remove footage from a project" on page 59.
Divide complex projects into simpler projects, and then recombine them before you render the finished movie.
To recombine projects, import all of the projects into a single project by choosing File > Import > File.
Prerender nested compositions.
Render a completed composition as a movie so that After Effects doesn't rerender the composition every time it is
displayed.
See "Saving time by prerendering nested compositions" on page 132
Deselect Switches Affect Nested Comps to restrict the effect of layer switches.
Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > General (Mac OS), and deselect
Switches Affect Nested Comps. Remember to select this option again before you render the composition for final
output.
Collapse transformations for nested compositions.
See "Using the Collapse Transformations/Continuously Rasterize switch" on page 168.
Substitute a low-resolution or still-image proxy for a source item when not working directly with that item.
See "To work with low-resolution proxies for footage" on page 129
Lower the composition's resolution.
See "Setting resolution" on page 114.
Note: To increase the rendering speed of RAM previews, set the resolution of the Composition panel to match the magni-
fication. For example, if the magnification is 50%, choose Half from the Resolution menu.
Isolate the layer you're working on by using the Solo switch.
See "To solo a layer" on page 160.