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Multiprocessing?
happy day! I have just been upgraded from 2GB of RAM, to 11 amazing wonderful glorious GB’s of RAM. Now I’m wondering how I can utilize this new power. When I start up AE it says I am using 4% of 3 total GB’s of RAM, how do I get AE to see I have 11? how should I set the memory settings in AE? as always, thanks!
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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read through it, even clicked the links 😉 but here at work we’re on CS3 not CS4 and the differences in how AE deals with memory in this version seem to be vast. the Adobe doc says to adjust the maximum memory usage, but its showing 3GB’s even though there’s 11 in there! what gives?
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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I’ve found it in a hundred different places, have some reading to do, getting scared though, just got these people to upgrade me and now worried it was for nothing O_O
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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Can you tell us about your machine specs and OS?
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No one instance of AE will see the whole 11 GB of RAM. AE is currently a 32-bit application, so it can can only “see” up to 4 GB. On the Mac, this is further limited to 3 or 3.5 GB for the main instance (I believe it reserves memory for toolkits and the GUI).
Multiprocessing works around this by limitation by launching multiple instances of the AE renderer at the same time, each of which can grab its own 4 GB, so all the RAM in your system can be used. Each instance works on its own frame and requires its own RAM to work efficiently; this is why we encouraged you to get more RAM, and this is what allows you to render multiple frames simultaneously.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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There are instructions and additional information about using Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing in After Effects CS3 here:
“Render multiple frames simultaneously”The controls for CS3 are a bit more… obtuse than in CS4. Making these easier to use and understand in CS4 was a pretty major improvement. But the controls are still there.
BTW, disregard that text on the splash screen that says “4% of 3GB used”, or whatever. That’s just telling you how much the foreground application is using at startup. That’s not useful information. With 11GB of RAM, you can feed four or so background processes to use Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing.
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ok, its clearer now, can’t wait for CS5!!! 🙂 the thing that has me scared is, the project I started asking questions about, the 3D one, I tried to render it again with multiprocessing turned on, and it just froze up, a frame every 15 minutes again…
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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[Charles Ferran] “the thing that has me scared is, the project I started asking questions about, the 3D one, I tried to render it again with multiprocessing turned on, and it just froze up, a frame every 15 minutes again…”
This 3D project of yours is a monster, isn’t it?
Have you tweaked the settings under Preferences > Memory & Cache?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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yes it is a monster, I have maximum memory usage set to 150% of 3GB’s
Maximum RAM Cache size 100% = 3GB’s
and maximum disk cache size is 5000 MBwhat I did see improvement on, and this is interesting, is when I did a render without the FX turned on, the buildings problems for the most part went away. The flickering sides that I was dealing with, they’re pretty much gone! so that must have been a memory issue? strange…
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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[Charles Ferran] “Maximum RAM Cache size 100% = 3GB’s “
I think your maximum RAM cache is set way too high. The default is 60%, and Adobe doesn’t recommend going over 90%.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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changed, thanks Walter.
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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