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Allocating RAM in AE 7 Prefs
I have G5 with 2 GB RAM running OS X 10.3.9
I’ve just upgraded to AE 7 and am wondering what the best settings for allocation of RAM would be in the preferences.
It defaulted to using 60% of available RAM but when I ran the Render Queue with 5 or 6 comps – it seems to render somewhat slower than I would have expected and I can’t do much of anything else on the system while that is rendering.
Are there some optimized settings you guys can let me in on?
As always – thanks for the help and input
Jack Pinard
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Is the 60% setting your Maximum Memory Usage or your Maximum RAM Cache Size? 60% should be fine for the RAM cache, but I’d get your Maximum Memory Useage up to at least 100% if it’s not there already.
I would also recommend getting more RAM. AE is capable of using 3 gigs on the Mac, so ideally you’d have 3 gigs available for AE with enough left over for your other apps and the OS itself.
A couple other things that might speed things up: If you have more than one disk drive available, keep your project and source files on a separate drive other than your startup drive. This will give you better performance overall.
Also try enabling disk cache; that might help, but I don’t think I’d do this if you don’t have a separate drive from your startup disk.
Good luck!
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