This made sound silly but . . . what is the point of Render to RAM? If you make a small change don’t you need to render the whole thing again anyway? If that is the case aren’t you better just rendering to your hard disk as a movie format?
Thanks.
Don't see the point of Render To Ram . . .
thatoneguy
#2
Render to Ram does essentially the same thing as clicking “play” and letting it cache your timeline.
I rarely use it, however if you have pretty layer heavy composites, and not a whole lot of RAM, it can do a better job of compressing it for storage on the RAM.
RAM has the huge advantage over saving it to your HD of having bandwidth potentially in the hundreds of MB/s as opposed to 20 or 30 from a 7200rpm hard drive.
DrQuincy
#3
Ah right, thanks.
I guess if you have complex workspaces and not much RAM (a gig of DDR like I do) then maybe there’s not a lot of use for it . . .
neogeo51
#4
Depending on the composite Render to RAM caches everything in one layer. Hitting Play caches the indivual layers also, this is only useful if you have got a lot of RAM.
One advantage of Render to RAM is that you can save the render instantly by File> Save Ram Player as. The compare operator feature is also quite useful.
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