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CPU usage on rendering
Cheers Guys and Girls
I’m facing a kinda huge render problem. For one second of animation I’m looking at up to 6 hours of rendertime on my 2GHZ Dual G5. Now I’ve noticed that the AE-Renderengine is just using around 12 % of my RAM. How could I push that to 60, 70 % or more? After all I’m not working on the machine as it’s rendering, so no other programms are leeching out the 3 Giga RAM I have.
Is it possible that I have to get something like GridIron or so to push the RAM usage?
I’ve grased the posts and have noticed that good old rendering seems to be an alltime runner. Damn rendering can never be fast enough. I guess 20 years from now we’ll still be swearing about the rendertimes needed…
Cheers
Steve
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2 Replies
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If you’re on a Dual G5 Nucleo will almost certainly help..
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you may not be using all the ram because ae just doesn’t need it… if your render is standard def and standard frame rate and your not using a lot of time based effects/features, like frame blending, forced motion blur, motion blur, etc, ae may not need a lot of ram to store information to composite into other frames.
try opening activity monitor, in the utilities folder, while you render and check the cpu activity. that will tell you how well ae is feeding your processor.
all that being said, nucleo and nucleo pro seem to be great products and will help just about any multiple processor system… the more processors or processor cores you have, the greater the benefit.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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