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How can optimize After Effects with my PC configuration?
They upgraded my PC at work and although I can see some enhancement of performance, I feel like Ae isn’t using most of the power of the PC. I’m no geek in Hardware but understand basics.
I have issues with the renderer Ray-Traced 3D which is now marked with (Depreciated) and won’t preview anything and errors keep on popping up ( Ray-traced 3D: Initial shader compile failed 5070::0 among others). I’ve switched to the Cinema 4D renderer but the fact it doesn’t accept transparency is crippling. I’ve got a couple of shape layers with extrusions the rest are flat 2D images in 3D space and for 25 seconds on 25fps and it needs 3 hours to render…
In Ae Preferences:
RAM shared by Ae and Media Encoder: 28.9 GB
In Comp settings:
Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA)
I’m not sure where else to make edits in the settings…
Here’s the PC’s specs:
Intel(R) Core i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.06 GHz
RTX 2080 Ti GPU
RAM 32.0 GB
x64
Any advice is appreciated!
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I’ve been using C4D because Ray-traced isn’t working for me at all anyway…
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Ray-tracing is computationally expensive. 3 hours of render time for 25 seconds of animation is not unreasonable.
Depending on what it is you’re trying to do in 3D, you might be better off using the Classic 3D renderer and adding a third-party plugin like Element 3D or Stardust into your workflow.
Walter Soyka
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