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Performance
I’ve read the Adobe guide to improve performance, but there didn’t seem to be anything how to improve performance from a hardware perspective. What exactly does AE like the most? Ram speed? Ram size? Processor speed? Page file size?
Basically, I was wondering…If there was one component that you could upgrade for better AE performance what would it be?
Thanks!
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the 3 things i think are.
processor (for computer speed)
ram (more speed, i suggest 1gig or more)
hard drive space (for video)anyone else?
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
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… and if you have a dual-processor box, you can really speed up your renders by setting up a dual-instance render:
Set up the render to creata a still sequence. Be sure to check “skip existing files”. You may want to close comp windows to minimize clutter. Save the project.
Run this command in the Windows command line:“C:Program Files:Adobe:After Effects 6.5:Support Files:AfterFX.exe” -m
(use backslashes as usual — they don’t show up here)
It works on mac too — if I recall, you need to click on the AE app in the applications folder.AE will launch again in a new window. Open the project you just saved, but in this new window. (just open the file in the usual fashion)
You should now have two AE windows open, each showing the render queue, ready to go. This is the “two instances” of AE.
Press the render button for each instance. The first one you press will render frame 1, and the other one will render frame 2. When the first one is done, it checks to see if frame 2 is done (or busy), skips it, and renders frame 3.AE then renders the sequence in that “leapfrog” pattern until the sequence is done. For fun, watch your processor usage go up. 🙂
Steve
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ah dual processors… i forgot that one.. man that is sweet that you can render like that. now i want to get a new machine
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
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Hey, try it with a single processor box. You never know …
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I’d also suggest getting a RAID disk array to store all you footage files on. This will speed things up for two reasons: 1) RAIDS are faster than single disks, and 2) Having AE run off a separate drive than where your footage is located will give you better performance.
Here’s to hoping Adobe finally gets multiprocessing right in version 7… 😉
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When’s version 7 coming out? Thanks for the input too! I think for a quick a dirty boost I’ll buy a stick of 3200.
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