• Adobe After Effects

  best thing to upgrade for render time

  Posted by Lumpynifkin on March 15, 2007 at 3:01 am

  Hi

  Love this place been reading posts non stop. I have been a little upset with my render time and was wondering what affects render time the most, processor speed, video card, RAM, or something else i don’t know about. Any insight is greatly apreciated.

  -Will

  Darby Edelen replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Erik Pontius

  March 15, 2007 at 3:39 am

  All of the above?
  Though I would say if you could only upgrade one…go for the CPU. The more horsepower under the hood, the quicker your renders are going to be. Furthermore, if your motherboard supports multi-core processors, you can purchase apps like GridIron’s Nucleo that can speed up renders and previews dramatically.

  AE 7 can tap into your graphics card’s graphics processor (GPU) to speed up some rendering, you’ll need a graphics card that is supported though.
  Adding more memory can help you load more frames at higher quality for RAM previews.

  Erik
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  Darby Edelen

  March 22, 2007 at 1:36 am

  RAM is important, but since AE is a 32-bit application running on a 32-bit OS (for the time being) it can’t possibly address more than 4GB of RAM at once (and less in real world terms, Windows only allows 2GB and Mac OS 10.4 3GB). So there’s a definite ceiling in terms of RAM. However, if you’re running After Effects and Photoshop at once (as I often do) you’ll want extra head room in terms of RAM.

  Processor is by far the most important aspect, but it’s important to balance this with RAM.

  One note: although multiple cores/processors will help if you have GridIron Nucleo, After Effects is itself not able to tap into the benefits of multiple cores.

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