We'll, I'm kind of new to After Effects so please forgive me if I am doing something wrong.
I am working with a 10 second clip that is a basic 3d background and some plain text with light animation. When I turn up the ray tracing 3d option to 9 to render the final product, it's painfully slow. I'm talking it's giving me a time estimate of 21 hours, for a 10 second clip! Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? I'm working on the high end late 2013 27" iMac. I would expect a lot better performance.