• Adobe After Effects

  Best Settings for Memory Usage

  Posted by Bryan Long on February 24, 2008 at 6:19 am

  I just got a new comp with 4 gigs of RAM. What are the best settings to use all of the RAM?

  Thanks,
  Bryan

  Kevin Camp replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kevin Camp

  February 25, 2008 at 6:08 pm

  generally the default ae settings are quite good, particularly if you have a lot of ram.

  there are some further tweaks you can make if you have cs3 and multiple cores/processors. with cs3 each core can be allotted up to 3gb of ram… so if you had a 2-core machine and had enabled multiprocessing, you might want to try a max ram cache setting of around 50% (enough to give 1.5gb to each core). if you had a 4-core, a setting around 25% may give you enough ram to use all 4 cores for multiprocessing.

  a good way to test settings is to pick a comp that takes about 15 minutes to render. make changes to the max ram cache setting in the memory & cache preference and render. then compare the numbers. repeat until you get numbers work for your machine and setup.

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
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