Most Used Motion Graphics Techniques

This week while browsing reddit, I found a blog post that summarized the top 25 techniques that motion graphics artists use to make simple videos look better. Some of these techniques I had practiced in the past, while some of these were completely new to me. It’s a good checklist to go through if you’re looking for ways to make a plain video look better, and I will definitely check this list before finalizing videos in the future. The link can be found here, and it’s a url that I have bookmarked for future use. /r/aftereffects has provided me with lots of valuable posts, and I plan on using these posts in the future as a valuable source of learning. 

Tips for speeding up your rendering process

So for my name project I added extruded text which completely slowed down my rendering process. It took me approximately 20 hours to render my 10 second name clip. I walked from class to class with my hard drive on top of my laptop as it continued to render. I probably slowed it down even more because I was using my laptop while in class. . . . But anyway hopefully you guys take something away from this blog and learn from my experience.

I did some research on how I could speed up the rendering process for the next time I rendered a file with heavy effects.
Of course the easiest option would be to buy more RAM for my Mac. But for now I'll use some of the options listed below.


1. Delete all unused elements
2. Pre render compositions (instead of rendering everything at once, break it down into compositions)
3. Lower resolution for the composition (instead of full put it on half,third or quarter.)
4. Control disk cache (watch tutorial below)