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Slow Performance No Idea
I am having problem’s running my After Effects. When ever I click to a different layer or scrub through my projects I am getting the beach ball from anywhere from 5 seconds to 1 min no matter what layer I click. I am running CS3. My computer is as follows:
Leopard 10.5.6
Quad-Core
Processor Speed: 3GHz
Number Of Processors:2
Total Number Of Cores:8
Memory:16 GBI am not sure if I have some preferences set wrong or what but any help would be great.
Thank you
Micah -
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sorry for the lack of info, but it doesnt matter what is on my time line weather it just be footage and I am scrubbing to another layer of footage or switching from one layer of text to another. I am not working in any 3D space at the moment just some text and footage for a :30 commercial. There isnt any crazy effects going on either just a few opacity key points. I have also created a new project with no effects and the same thing happens.
Thank You
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it might be easiest to try and reset your preferences before doing too much troubleshooting…
so you don’t unnecessarily delete your preferences, quit ae, then go to users/username/library/preferences/adobe/after effects and pull the folder with the version number (8.0) to the desktop, the restart ae and open a project that was giving you problems and see if it is any better with a fresh set of preferences…
if it is, great, you can go to the preferences and make a few tweaks to try and get things working better… with what you’ve listed about your system, i’d enable multiprocessing. personally, i’d also disable opengl acceleration in the previews pref. i also think that i would leave the memory and cache settings alone for now and i would only enable disk caching if you keep all your media/renders on a drive bus that is separate from your main/boot drive (usually this would mean that all your media/renders are on an external drive, not using the internal drive bus).
if you like running another app or two while ae is open, you might download /throttle. its a little gui script for ae that gives you control over how many processors you want devoted to ae. you could devote 7 to ae leaving one for surfing the cow, or photoshop or something. if that 1 processor isn’t busy, ae will use it for any multithreaded effects, so it’s not really ignored by ae. there is also the manual preference hack to achieve the same result, but the script is easier…
Kevin Camp
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Thank you Dave,
I am rendering out Uncommpressed QT out of Pr.
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