• Adobe After Effects

  4 CPUs – Render Never Uses 100%

  Posted by Atomic on October 30, 2007 at 1:57 pm

  Hi All,

  I have an HP with two dual core CPUs.
  When I am rendering, I see that After Effects does use all four CPUs, but the usage hangs out around 25% to 50%.

  How can I get 100% usage out of After Effects? I mean that is why I got the dual cores.

  Atomic replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Nicholas Toth

  October 30, 2007 at 2:09 pm

  You need to either be running

  1.) AFX7 with nucleo/nucleo pro
  2.) AECS3 with multiprocessing enabled in your prefs
  3.) AECS3 with nucleo/nucleo pro

  If you’re doing it in aecs3 you’re going to need around 8 gigs of ram. Nucleo doesn’t care that much though, you could throw 4 gigs at it and it’ll work just fine. I’d recommend raid striping some drives together too, I just did that on my work station and it helps with the multiprocessing write speeds.

  Its not just about the processors, you must have a balanced machine — your processors can write so much more so much faster, you’ll need a snappier drive and more RAM to feed the cores.
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  Atomic

  November 5, 2007 at 4:52 pm

  Add more software….

  What a let down. ;<( Up and at them No, no… Up and Atom!

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