[jeremy freeds] " I feel like it takes up so much ram to put your background behind your subject WHILE your keying effect is active. It would be great to separate the two tasks and render out a pre-keyed version of your forground footage first, before messing with the bg. "
Why do you think this? Generally speaking, Ae can easily handle hundreds of layers. Are you having some kind of problem? What are your system specs and memory & multiprocessing settings?
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