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  • Adobe Media Encoder Settings

    Posted by Farhan Ali on May 14, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    Hello everyone hope you’re well. Recently I have been creating numerous project files with AE and I must say I’m enjoying every moment of it.

    The thing is I’m quite new when it comes to rendering. I have quite powerful desktop pc and want to use it fully.

    I have the following specs:-
    OS – Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
    CPU – Intel Core i7 4770K @ 3.50GHz
    RAM – 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3
    Motherboard – ASUS Z87-PRO
    Graphics – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3071MB

    On AE under, “Memory & Multiprocessing” it states the following information:-
    Installed RAM: 15.9GB
    RAM reserved for other applications: 5GB
    RAM shared by AE & Adobe Media Encoder: 10.9GB

    Everything else on that section are “Uncheck”

    Can someone please tell me if everything has been setup to its full potential.
    Surely there’s room for improvement?

    Thanks

    Farhan Ali replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Farhan Ali

    May 14, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    Hello Dave thanks for your response, oooops I forgot to mention the most important part. I am using Adobe After Effects CC.

    Thanks

  • Walter Soyka

    May 15, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    [Farhan Ali] “On AE under, “Memory & Multiprocessing” it states the following information:-
    Installed RAM: 15.9GB
    RAM reserved for other applications: 5GB
    RAM shared by AE & Adobe Media Encoder: 10.9GB

    Everything else on that section are “Uncheck”

    Can someone please tell me if everything has been setup to its full potential. Surely there’s room for improvement?”

    There is. If multiprocessing is not checked, you are not exploiting the multiple cores your CPU has very well.

    Per the recommended starting settings, I’d adjust your RAM reserved for other applications to 6 GB. I’d enable multiprocessing (definitely for the render queue, possibly for RAM previews), and set the minimum allocation per background CPU to at least 2 GB, probably 3.

    Walter Soyka
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  • Farhan Ali

    May 16, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    Hello Walter thanks for you response. I’ve adjusted the settings as you recommended.

    Enabled “Multiprocessing” let’s hope rendering time is improved.
    Also, RAM reserved for other application has been set at 5GB as at times I don’t use any powerful software’s, only Sony Vegas at times.

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