Seeking suggestions on optimizing my new system for AE…

[Ericbowen]

Yes Hyperthreading works fine with CS6 and is good to have. Make sure those CPU’s are the E5 V2 models and not the V1’s. Don’t get the Quadro unless you need 10bit color preview. It will not help you in AE much at all and Geforce card is far better for Premiere’s MPE performance wise. I would suggest 128GB of ram with that many threads. 64GB is low to support that many threads especially if the frame sizes are over 1080. The SSD drive is ideal.

Revision –
Sorry just realized you already have it. Set the multiprocessing enabled and set the ram to 1.5GB per thread. It’s up to you whether you leave a few CPU threads for other applications. I would also enable the multiprocessing for Ram preview. The AE Cache should be fine at 20GB on the OS SSD. Beyond that you should be fine.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Leave it on default for now, except set up your Global Performance Cache to SSD. Then monitor your system during heavy use for CPU and memory utilization, and it’ll tell you what (if anything) needs addressing.

Here are some links:
– How to Optimize After Effects CS6 for High Performance (video)
– After Effects Help – Improve performance, and especially, Improve performance using Global Performance Cache | CC, CS6
– FAQ: What are optimum memory settings for best performance in After Effects?

(all links – from Adobe)

Alex Gerulaitis
System Administrator, Video Ops / Digital Media
Disney / ABC TVG

[Todd Kopriva]

See this page for resources about making Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects work faster: https://adobe.ly/eV2zE7

See this page for information about hardware for Premiere Pro and After Effects: https://adobe.ly/pRYOuk

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Lon Waitman]

Thanks, Eric. (And yes, the processors are v2) And I have enabled AE Cache for my SSD drive (AE help suggests a drive other than the one my footage is on. Steve Forde, in the Adobe video, says it should be neither on the footage drive or the OS drive — but I only have one SSD drive and it is the OS drive, so I hope it still works OK)

[Lon Waitman]

Alex – very useful vids. Thanks!

[Lon Waitman]

Thank you, Todd.

[Lon Waitman]

Thanks, Eric. (And yes, the processors are v2) And I have enabled AE Cache for my SSD drive (AE help suggests a drive other than the one my footage is on. Steve Forde, in the Adobe video, says it should be neither on the footage drive or the OS drive — but I only have one SSD drive and it is the OS drive, so I hope it still works OK)

PS: I have found a way to add my Nvidia K5000 card to the CUDA list (for Premiere) and to the Raytrace list for AE. But I cannot find a way to make it work with opengl. Is there some way to add this card to some sort of list or .txt file to make it work?

[Todd Kopriva]

> I have found a way to add my Nvidia K5000 card to the CUDA list (for Premiere) and to the Raytrace list for AE. But I cannot find a way to make it work with opengl. Is there some way to add this card to some sort of list or .txt file to make it work?

I’m not sure what you are expecting or seeing. Show us a screenshot of your GPU Information dialog box in After Effects.

What are you trying to do, exactly?

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Lon Waitman]

i saw a video tutorial where it showed (under the fast preview button), the ability to choose or un-choose opengl. but all i see is this…

oh – and here is the gpu info window…

[Todd Kopriva]

> i saw a video tutorial where it showed (under the fast preview button),

You are watching out-of-date video tutorials.

From your screenshot, everything is working fine. There is nothing that you need to do.

This page explains how OpenGL is used:
https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6.html

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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