• Blackmagic Design

  Is multibrige exttreme on vista still restricted to 3gb ram?

  Posted by Miles Blow on April 2, 2007 at 1:49 pm

  Hi
  Buying a new computer and are woundering if we will be stuck with 2-3gigs max of ram like with xp. If so we are thinking of a mac. Pitty because adobe suite looks great.

  thanks
  Miles

  Miles Blow replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Andrew Yoole

  April 3, 2007 at 10:46 pm

  On Mac, AE will recognize up to 3.5GB per process.
  On Win XP/Vista AE will recognize up 3.7 GB total
  On Win64 AE will recognize up to 4GB per process.

  That’s per process. On all platforms, AE CS3 can run multiple render processes in the background – each process utilizing its own 3.5 -4 Gb RAM. A Quad-core CPU will run 4 processes simultaneously, using 14 GB RAM or thereabouts. Additional RAM will also allow you to run multiple applications simultaneously.

  There is no virtually no difference in content or features between the new CS3 Production Premium bundle for Mac and PC platforms.
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  Miles Blow

  April 4, 2007 at 12:54 pm

  Do you know how much ram shake use? We are working with hi res image sequences.
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  Andrew Yoole

  April 4, 2007 at 3:44 pm

  Shake is governed by the same RAM limits as other applications. So 3.5 GB is as far as it goes. Because Shake has had development discontinued, it will never be recoded in 64bit, so will probably never utilise more RAM either.
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  Miles Blow

  April 5, 2007 at 1:40 am

  Oh So really we should stick with aftereffects (get the new version)on a big pc?

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