Question on rendering video recorded in WoW

[ev1]

Does it really take 14 hours to render a 1 minute video i made at decent quality using Adobe After Effects? I have a decent videocard and computer is completely clean of viruses and spyware. Rendering in "draft" is like 15minutes, that's not too bad - quality is crap though.

Any links to help would be terrific, I did use the search but all i found were guides leading up to the step I'm on, rendering.

[Traxex84]

It all depends on the format, high quality avi files are 4gb+ so they take quite a while depending on how quick your system is. How much ram do you have, and do you have an ssd hard drive?

[ev1]

I have 4gigs of ram, what video format would be best for semi decent on youtube, that's all i care about lol.

[XpLoDWilD]

Are you using some supersized FX ? Often for myself it doesn't take more than twice the length of the movie. 1080p might be slower though What are you comp settings ? Are you using tons of effects?

[Duplicity]

You are probably encoding with lossless. Which means big files.

[ev1]

I ended up changing the output resolution, it was set to "too ****ing big" that reduced the time to about 2 hours, it was nice. Never the less, the quality is still not where i want it. I'll find a nifty balance, all of your suggestions so far helped me to learn stuff, so thank you and keep it coming +rep to whoever helps/helped

[Steeltronic]

Imo, you should use Adobe Media Encoder, so much faster imo.
You can add some "After Effects Composition", not quite sure what it means by that.

But I pref. AME to render, incredibly fast. Tho it uses 100% cpu, dno if you can change that.

[ev1]

Imo, you should use Adobe Media Encoder, so much faster imo.
You can add some "After Effects Composition", not quite sure what it means by that.

But I pref. AME to render, incredibly fast. Tho it uses 100% cpu, dno if you can change that.

I'll have a look at it, i'll probably stick with Adobe AE just because it will force me to become advanced, however for small projects i'll definitely take interest to AME. Thanks for introducing me with the name