Hey guys , I have a JVC Everio 1080p Camcorder that produces AVCHD type videos in .MTS format. I'm using Adobe Premiere and after effects CS5.5
All I'm doing with these 10 minute clips is removing greenscreen to replace it with a whitebackground.. So the end result is simply me standing against a plain white background. (originally shot in front of my greenscreen of course).
Heres the reason I'm having trouble..
After effects crashes when trying to key out the background when I have the option for "render multiple frames simultaneously" selected.. I've tweaked my settings to get the best performance I know of but keylight causes a crash consistently..
If I dont have multiple frames rendering at the same time this 10 minute movie takes like 10 hours to render to a .h264 format which is the final format my clients need..
So I did a lot of research and came to the conclusion that I should render my MTS movie in Quicktime - format with the Animation codec selected (if that makes sense?) Something about the MTS video not having enough keyframe information and that causes the speed bottleneck and crashing.. I hope I'm right there..
Anyway , since I render the movies as .MOV now and THEN perform the greenscreen keying that way onces its an .MOV movie ...keylight does it in only 2 hours instead of 10 (which I think can still be improved) ..
I can deal with that for now.. BUT
My main problem/question..
DISK SPACE =( The original MTS file may be like 3-4 gigs but when rendering it to an MOV file it turns into anywhere from 90-140 gigs...
I'm quickly running out of space..
Can anyone help me tweak my operation and tell me how to either cut the rendering times down or tell me a better format to render this video in so that its not HUGE and wont take 10 hours AND possibly wont make keylight crash?
As I mentioned I think it was crashing with my earlier method because I was trying to key out the greenscreen and replace with a white background on the original .MTS file in after effects while converting it straight to .H264 in one go.
I've just bought a brand new laptop
System Specs: I7 processor , 12GB ram , GeForce GTX 765 video card (if that matters)
1 hard drive with 2 partitions 1 is 450GB and the other half of it is 250GB.
I have , but am not using , an external hard drive capable of storing 500GB..
When rendering my videos I at least drag them off the SD Card that the camera has them on and put them onto the main hard drive.. The rendered file is also burning to the same hard drive (which I think is a problem?) i'm not sure if I should have the original video and the one being rendered on the same hard drive or if I should put one or the other on the external hard drive. (disk cache question here maybe?)
I'm very much a video editing newbie but I understand a good bit of computer lingo.
If anyone can help I'll be very grateful!
Did I miss giving any valuable information here? (please forgive me I've been up for 24 hours and I'm delerious)