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After Effects and dual-core processors
Has After Effects been coded to take full advantage of the multi-core processor motherboards available now?
TONY T
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5 Replies
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What do you mean? AE by itself is basically multi-threaded, however certain functions and effects plugins aren’t, so you will never see your machine at full throttle, regardless of how much processors or cores you have. Maybe some day Adobe can sort this out, but for the time being you can buy as powerful a machine as you like but it will never be completely used by AE itself.
Mylenium
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I believe if you have a Dual Core or higher Nucleo Pro in conjunction with AE will speed up your rendering/preview times no end and render on the fly in the background I think?
Still on a single core meself (boo) so haven’t sampled the delights as yet..
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Yes, Nucleo Pro in that case would make a fine addition (assuming it fits your general workflow).
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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This is pretty dissapointing news. I bought a dual core processor AMD 64 bit 4800+ motherboard because I thought the rendering process in After Effects would fly. Well – its not slow, I have to say. But I have a sinking feeling that its not going as fast as it could. Now how about VISTA. The 2007 version is supposed to compliment multi-core processors very nicely. Will AE run on Vista. Wasn’t there a way to speed up rendering by using more than one computer. Well dual core is just two processors in one.
TONY T
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You can network render with multiple computers – which is basically what Nucleo does when rendering. It opens up Multiple copies of AE so that your CPU’s are used more effectively.
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