Answers.Body: <p>I believe that using pngs from the pdf is the best compromise between quality and speed. Your main concern being the render-time? If so, (I am sure you have, but just to be sure) have you checked if you're using Hardware-acceleration? You should also purge your cache frequently and have both the footage as well as your cache-directory as well as the project files on a fast medium, like an ssd.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not certain with how familiar you are with those standard optimization techniques, so I'm just throwing this out there. If there's a different problem, please elaborate. </p>
  
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Answers.Text: all good points - thanks!
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Body: <p>I've been making a lot of videos using multi-page A4 size PDFs in AE.
  What's the most efficient way to do this? The renders take a while.
  Things I've tried:</p>
  
  <p>1) Split PDF to 1 file per page
  2) Convert to PNG? Or jpg? (which is more efficient?) At high dpi (like 600 dpi so I can zoom in nicely on them).
  3) Paper texture beneath, then pre comp
  then parent all the pre-comps together so I can scroll up and down.</p>
  
  <p>I think this is faster and looks as good as Collapse Transformations on a PDF file layer, but I'm not sure.</p>
  
  <p>Final output is HD 25fps - turnaround time on the videos is an issue, so any speed up would be welcome!</p>
  
  <p>Any advice welcomed - some examples of the videos below:</p>
  
  <p><div class="youtube-embed"><div>
                  <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/na9QfL9JTys?start=0"></iframe>
              </div></div>
  <div class="youtube-embed"><div>
                  <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y0tWyhkoP5c?start=0"></iframe>
              </div></div></p>
  
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Title: most efficient pipeline for rendering large documents in after effects
UserDisplayName: tomh
ThreadText: # most efficient pipeline for rendering large documents in after effects
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-11)
  
  I've been making a lot of videos using multi-page A4 size PDFs in AE.
  What's the most efficient way to do this? The renders take a while.
  Things I've tried:
  
  1) Split PDF to 1 file per page
  2) Convert to PNG? Or jpg? (which is more efficient?) At high dpi (like 600 dpi so I can zoom in nicely on them).
  3) Paper texture beneath, then pre comp
  then parent all the pre-comps together so I can scroll up and down.
  
  I think this is faster and looks as good as Collapse Transformations on a PDF file layer, but I'm not sure.
  
  Final output is HD 25fps - turnaround time on the videos is an issue, so any speed up would be welcome!
  
  Any advice welcomed - some examples of the videos below:
  
  **Tags:** after-effects
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-06-11. Score: 2
  
  I believe that using pngs from the pdf is the best compromise between quality and speed. Your main concern being the render-time? If so, (I am sure you have, but just to be sure) have you checked if you're using Hardware-acceleration? You should also purge your cache frequently and have both the footage as well as your cache-directory as well as the project files on a fast medium, like an ssd.
  
  I'm not certain with how familiar you are with those standard optimization techniques, so I'm just throwing this out there. If there's a different problem, please elaborate.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: all good points - thanks!  
  
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