After Effects Memory and Multi-Processing Advice

[Bob Crampton]

Wow 32GB of ram Walter, now I’m really envious. No doubt Dave is too LOL

Regards Bob

[Walter Soyka]

[Bob Crampton] “Wow 32GB of ram Walter, now I’m really envious.”

When I ordered the system, the salesperson paused and said, “32 GB of RAM? Are you sure? What are you doing with this thing?” Adding the RAM doubled the cost of the workstation, but I work with some really large custom frame sizes, so I viewed it as an important investment to allow me to really use multiprocessing.

Like I said, for my HD projects, it’s complete overkill, and 16 or 24 GB would have been enough.

For my large format work, though… like Michael said, when 64-bit AE CS5 comes out, I’ll be upgrading RAM again.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Adam Taylor]

i won’t even let our IT guys in the room housing all my mac kit. It scares them too much, and it scares me watching a PC techie approach a happy mac!!

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

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