After Effects CS5.5 freezes on render in multiproccessing mode

[Garret Layman]

That was my first inclination as well but I haven’t been able to think of or find anything that has changed, I haven’t run any updates or made any changes that I’m aware of.

I was however able to get AE to render with Multiprocessing after allocating my RAM to 32 for AE and 32 for everything else.

Any ideas why I would have a sudden decrease in the amount I can use?

Mac Pro
2×2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel
64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2048 MB

[Garret Layman]

Thanks Dave.

I appreciate the responses and the information. I guess at the very least we have something to look forward to, right? Let’s hope anyway.

Mac Pro
2×2.66 GHz 6-Core Intel
64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2048 MB

[Nicholas Toth]

We are running AFX5.5 in our shop, and needless to say the render engine can be a train wreck (along with frequently restarting because of memory leaks). However, this nifty script tends to manage hardware resources/priority and help a lot. We cut render times down roughly 20-50% depending on the job. Don’t run it in the background, run it in the foreground and have it ping all resources possible — but read up on what does what before you alter any settings.

https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/

It renders through the terminal/command line — and has worked great for us. Its not an answer to your question but give the free version a shot, it might help.