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AFTER EFFECTS 6.5 ram limit?
Okay, I got a quad G5 with 4.5 gigs o ram and after effects only seems to recognize 2047 megs. is there a limit to what AE can use? I’ve heard there’s a 2 gig limit, I’ve heard 3, and I’ve heard that there is no limit, but nobody has a solution for me. Please let me know if you have any insight. I just bought two gigs of ram today, and I hate to think that I wasted $250.
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i’m far from an expert on the topic but i asked this question myself a while ago and learnt from various answers that AE is a 32bit app which can only make use of 2 gigs of ram. i have a dual processor g5 myself with 4gigs of ram as of recently. the cool thing with having more than 2 gigs of ram as i see it is that i can render with the render engine while i work in regular AE. probably the OS, photoshop and illustrator eat a fair bit of ram too, so having 2 designated gigs of ram for working is great. i have no idea if it really works this way inside that tin can next to me on the desk, but 4 gigs certainly moves the train of programs a bit quicker than before and rendering while being able to work on is not a bad thing either… i don’t think you wasted your money on ram, but as far as i know AE can’t use more than 2, so the rest you’ll use on other stuff… if anyone really knows the exact answer to this, i’d be really happy to know too. cheers/d
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Thanks alot. I know that it will still help, I just wonder if it will be worth $250. Oh well. I really appreciate the response.
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Thought I would resurrect an old post I made about RAM and AE. The only difference is that AE 7 is now out, and that it will use up to 3GB of RAM on a Mac. AE 6.5 will only use 2GB. Of course (shameless plug coming up….), Nucleo will eat as much RAM as you can throw at it – especially on a Quad, and give you the fast render times to make it worth it.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=867951
Steve
GridIron Software Inc.
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well there we have it… 🙂 thanks Steve for the link. I did a search the archives, but didn’t hit that thread yet. much appreciate it! good luck 3dstroker (hope you have ae7 – i don’t)
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