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Does AE support dual core
I’ve bought a new PC, a Intel duo core 2 6420 with 2 GB.
But i’ve noticed that After effects is only using 50 till 60% of my processor. Why isn’t it using the full 100 %. The same with premiere it also uses only only 50% of my prosessor time.now i’ve found the plug in GridIron Nucleo who uses the full potential of the processor. But is it realy true that you need a plug in to use a multi core processor?
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Yes you will need Nucleo to take full advantage of more than one core using After Effects 7. The reason is that it is not a properly multithreaded application.
After Effects CS3, which is due to be out in July, DOES support multiple processors, so I would recommend not buying Nucleo, but rather save the money to upgrade to CS3 when it comes out.
Another thing to bear in mind with AE CS3 – Each process can use up to 2GB of RAM. Therefore, if you have two processors After Effects will be able to use up to 4GB RAM. You should probably add memory to your system to bring it up to 4GB or you will be giving each process half the RAM it needs to really sing.
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the next ae (cs3) will fully use the extra processors…. currently, there are many effects that do take advantage of mulitple processors (there is a list of the effects and processes that utilize multiple processors some where on adobe.com) but the render engine does not.
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CS3 will indeed replicate the functionality of Nucleo standard..but will not have the features of Nucleo Pro (spec render/preview, etc..) For $50 it seems a no-brainer to buy Nucleo if you have a dual core machine, then when you can afford it upgrade to Pro 2 when CS3 comes out!
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