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(CS5) AE Render Performance VERY POOR
Hello everyone. I’m going to make this as short and sweet as I can. Thanks in advance for any help.
– System: Mac Pro 8-core Nehalem (2.66GHz), Snow Leopard 10.6.3, ATI Radeon HD 4870
– RAM: 16GB
– Hard Drives: 3TB SATA RAID Internal (caches stored here), 16TB Fiber Channel SAN (render output here)
– AE Settings: Disk Cache Enabled (~10GB on internal RAID); 13GB RAM allocated to AE, 3GB to other apps; Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously enabled, no CPU’s reserved for other applications.
– Project: 720×486 comp, standard DV settings, 14 seconds total; but ONLY first 4 seconds has animation, the rest is still frame. There are only text and particle layers, not even a background.
– Behavior: After setting up the project and clicking “Render”, the render will get through the first 11 frames, then STOP. It holds there for about a minute, and then renders the last of the frames VERY SLOWLY. It finally completed the render after 6 minutes, 23 seconds.
This SAME file rendered in CS4 on a lesser horsepower machine in 30 seconds. I’m stumped.
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> no CPU’s reserved for other applications
That is a huge red flag.
See this page:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/03/performance-tip-dont-oversched.html———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Thank you for the tip!
However, after trying 8, 6, 4, 2 processors and then even shutting off multiprocessing, I still get the same result.
Maybe it’s a comp issue? I’ll see if I have enough time to rebuild this whole thing in CS5-AE, unless you have another suggestion?
Really appreciate your time!
-PJ
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