• Adobe After Effects

  After Effects CS5.5 freezes on render in multiproccessing mode

  Posted by Garret Layman on November 28, 2012 at 2:10 pm

  I get the beachball a few seconds after I click render on any comp in any project no matter how simple or complex if multiprocessing is turned on. I have used multiprocessing with no problems up until about a week ago and I can’t seem to resolve this with solutions from any other post. My initial settings were 10 gb of RAM and 4 cores allocated for other applications. I have raised both to well over 75% of my total capacity but still no improvement. This is really slowing down my workflow, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

  Specs:
  Mac Pro 2010
  2 x 2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
  64 GB RAM
  OSX Lion

  Thanks,
  Garret

  Nicholas Toth replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Garret Layman

  November 28, 2012 at 3:55 pm

  That was my first inclination as well but I haven’t been able to think of or find anything that has changed, I haven’t run any updates or made any changes that I’m aware of.

  I was however able to get AE to render with Multiprocessing after allocating my RAM to 32 for AE and 32 for everything else.

  Any ideas why I would have a sudden decrease in the amount I can use?

  Mac Pro
  2×2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel
  64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
  NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2048 MB
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  Garret Layman

  November 28, 2012 at 7:45 pm

  Thanks Dave.

  I appreciate the responses and the information. I guess at the very least we have something to look forward to, right? Let’s hope anyway.

  Mac Pro
  2×2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel
  64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
  NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2048 MB
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  Nicholas Toth

  November 29, 2012 at 6:14 am

  We are running AFX5.5 in our shop, and needless to say the render engine can be a train wreck (along with frequently restarting because of memory leaks). However, this nifty script tends to manage hardware resources/priority and help a lot. We cut render times down roughly 20-50% depending on the job. Don’t run it in the background, run it in the foreground and have it ping all resources possible — but read up on what does what before you alter any settings.

  https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/

  It renders through the terminal/command line — and has worked great for us. Its not an answer to your question but give the free version a shot, it might help.

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