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After Effects Using All Processors
So I’m using the memory & multiprocessing option in AE and no matter what I set the
“CPUs reserved for other application” to the program still uses all my processors pushing to %100.
Is there any way to change this to maybe only using half? It makes it really hard to still work on my mac without it stalling or slugging.
I’ve tried setting the cpus reserved even to 20 but it still maxes out all of my processors.
Specs:
mac pro
10.8.5
2 x 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
96 GB 1333 MHz DDR3running AE CC
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Are you using the ray-tracing renderer? In software-mode (no NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU), this disables traditional multiprocessing and renders on all cores.
You might try Lloyd Alvarez’s excellent BG Renderer script [link], which lets you adjust the priority of the rendering processes and could make your computer a little more responsive during renders.
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