# Could Someone Give me Advice for Managing Heavy Compositing Projects in Flame? **URL:** \ **Category:** Flame Questions\ **Tags:** color, jobs, action, timeline, batch\ **Created:** [September 13, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404 "2024-09-13T07:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hBomb42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hBomb42](https://forum.logik.tv/u/hBomb42)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/22 "2024-09-13T20:38:46Z")
Seconding this. UHD paint sequence renders can get murderous. Center/Crop Resize that ish down to 1080 or 720 even if you can swing it, and you’ll speed up your renders dramatically! ---
**Author:** ![philm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/philm/32/9286_2.png) [@philm](https://forum.logik.tv/u/philm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/23 "2024-09-13T20:50:03Z")
@hBomb42 - this is another good use for openclip: Render just the painted frames that you need as your openclip precomp, because they temporally align with the rest of your sequence (is that a split inifitive, and do i care?) Then you can destroy the paint node, recalling it if necessary by appending the openclip setup to whatever iteration of the batch that you’re in. for example, you have 2,000 frames of 8k in your batch group, starting at frame 1001. you make a simple precomp output. you need to paint on frame 1011-1020, then you need to paint on frame 1301-1350, then you need to paint on frame 2051-2200. You could carry an animation and context heavy paint node through all of your renders until the job is done (nightmare, memory hungry, error prone) or you could render precomp\_openclip\_version2 (10 frames),version\_3 (50 frames) and version\_4 (150 frames) and throw away all the staging nodes. it’s exactly like magic, until you realize that it’s still just work. but openclip is the better way to ‘just work’ in my opinion of course. ---
**Author:** ![hBomb42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hBomb42](https://forum.logik.tv/u/hBomb42)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/24 "2024-09-13T21:35:12Z")
Or…I just click the little caching dot and take the render hit on the first render. Or if I’m feeling particularly hateful about it, I’ll right click-\>CreateBFX and render that. ---
**Author:** ![AdamArcher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/adamarcher/32/3529_2.png) [@AdamArcher](https://forum.logik.tv/u/AdamArcher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/25 "2024-09-13T21:39:37Z")
> [@hBomb42](#): > > I just click the little caching dot Ha, I was going to say don’t use this approach as I find it buggy and unreliable. It must have improved as I haven’t pressed that in over a decade!! ---
**Author:** ![hBomb42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hBomb42](https://forum.logik.tv/u/hBomb42)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/26 "2024-09-13T21:42:16Z")
It generally works for me, but is sometimes stupid about whether it wants to cache on render or not. ---
**Author:** ![philm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/philm/32/9286_2.png) [@philm](https://forum.logik.tv/u/philm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/27 "2024-09-13T21:50:11Z")
@hBomb42 - it’s so funny - when you type that i physically shudder 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![paul\_round](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/paul_round/32/389_2.png) [@paul\_round](https://forum.logik.tv/u/paul_round)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/28 "2024-09-14T07:50:02Z")
> [@ALan](#): > > Wrong. For once, I agree with Alan, I love the MK! I tend to use it like a mini batch. ---
**Author:** ![pixelmixer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/pixelmixer/32/2994_2.png) [@pixelmixer](https://forum.logik.tv/u/pixelmixer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/29 "2024-09-14T18:09:24Z")
Agree one hundred percent. ---
**Author:** ![johnt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/johnt/32/14040_2.png) [@johnt](https://forum.logik.tv/u/johnt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/30 "2024-09-20T13:56:28Z")
I always wished MK had the ability to add multiple inputs into paint ---
**Author:** ![ALan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@ALan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/ALan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/could-someone-give-me-advice-for-managing-heavy-compositing-projects-in-flame/11404/31 "2024-09-20T16:06:22Z")
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