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¿Multiprocessing inactive rendering AE project in PP sequence?
Hi! I’ll go straight to the point 🙂
My system:
Core i7 920
18 gigs RAM
ATI 5850The AE project I’m using is very intensive in effects, flares, opticals and so on… It renders with CPU at 100% with no problem when rendering directly with AE with a satisfactory speed given my system specs.
This AE project is part of a Premiere Pro sequence. Of course, to increase productivity and save renders, the logical step would be to insert the AE project into the sequence through dynamic link and that is what I’ve done, but…
– The part of the sequence that is “genuine” PP is rendered at 100% CPU’s
– The part of the sequence corresponding to the AE project is rendered at 20-30% CPU and very slow compared to the direct AE render.
– No matter what settings are touched in AE memory and multiprocessing section; the result is the same when rendering in PP or Media Encoder.Memory and multiprocessing settings in AE as follow right now:
– Installed RAM 18GB
– RAM reserved for other applications 3GB (can’t put less than that)
– RAM available for rest of Adobe applications (15GB)
– Render simultaneously frames enabled
– Installed CPU’s 8
– CPU reserved for others applications 0
– RAM allocation per background CPU 2GB
– Actual CPU’s that will be used 6As I said, no matter what values you input in the fields. The result is the same. Even when rendering in AE the 8 CPU’s are used at 100% and not 6. I’ve tried with 3 CPU, 1,5GB, 3GB and so on. It just doesn’t work.
So… I’m completely lost. I think I have enough RAM to feed all 8 CPU’s and allow multiprocessing with AE embedded in PP but I’m unable to know what is failing. Or if it is normal… Maybe multiprocessing just doesn’t work with dynamic link?
Thank you!
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5 Replies
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> Maybe multiprocessing just doesn’t work with dynamic link?
Correct.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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Thanks for answering Todd. I find that thing very annoying. The benefits of Dynamic Link are not so good then…
Do you know if multiprocessing will be added to dynamic link in future updates of CS5 or CS6?
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> Do you know if multiprocessing will be added to dynamic link in future updates of CS5 or CS6?
Performance improvements in this area are a high priority. You can influence that by making a feature request: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish
How to give feedback on After Effects here.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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Thanks again, Todd. I will do that.
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I don’t pretend to start a flame war with that post. The only thing I wanted to state saying that I was annoyed, and is a fact, is that it is evident that I would have saved the time for testing and a memory upgrade if Adobe made clear that kind of behavior of Dynamic Link.
I’m not aware of the problems of Adobe purchasing companies and making his products better. And I don’t have to be… I make videos, not applications. And I expected one component to function different than reality because I had no info about one particular situation. That’s the point.
Now I will send the survey Todd has posted and I hope at least that Adobe make clear that situation for all the people that are in the same situation as me.
Cheers.
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