• Adobe After Effects

  Interesting results with Multi-processing and Nucleo Pro2

  Posted by Mike Procunier on August 2, 2007 at 2:37 pm

  After upgrading to CS3 all of my RAM previews with MP enabled were hanging for 10-15 seconds on the first and last frame of the preview. I ended up not using MP and only enabling it for my final renders. After installing Nucleo Pro2. This problem has vanished! AE initializes MP on the first RAM preview, then every subsequent RAM preview works as expected (and faster than Nucleo’s Fast Previews by about 25%) Note that I’m using AE’s native MP here not Nucleo’s Fast Preview. Interesting.

  David Franklin replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Forde

  August 2, 2007 at 3:39 pm

  If you are doing a head to head comparison – make sure that you set the performance level to maximum in NP2. This will make it a more similar comparison as NP 2 will focus more on playing nice and constraining performance at the default performance setting. MP in AE will try to eat everything.

  Also try it on multiple projects.

  Let us know how you make out!

  Steve
  GridIron Software Inc.
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  David Franklin

  August 2, 2007 at 4:14 pm

  MikeP WOW!

  That would totally improve my life — I think we discussed this about a week and a half ago, and I’ve been too busy to do the benchmarks that were discussed at that point.

  I’m interested in why it works, of course. But the bottom line is, you solved a serious problem that at least five of us reported having.

  Thank you, thank you. Now I just have to go buy Nucleo Pro…

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