Slow renders, wrong memory settings?

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Select Multiprocessing, allocate at least 2GB RAM per processing core.
If you leave 2GB RAM for other programs, then this allows for 14GB for AE. You should then use 7 processing cores for render in AE and leave the rest for other applications.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania

[Dan Preston]

I was researching so that I could plan my upcoming Mac Pro purchase, and came across this Adobe article about memory usage in After Effects CS5:
link

For optimizing rendering speeds based on your own system, it gives you every thing you need to know about your settings, depending on your RAM, number of cores, etc. It’ll probably take some experimenting to tweak, but it’s pretty detailed about the various tradeoffs. Much depends on the nature of an individual project, so you may have to tweak your setting depending on how complex your compositions are.

It’s also helping me try to prioritize my budget, and how much I spend on RAM vs. number of cores vs. clock speed.

Good luck!

[Dirk d. Lopez]

Huge thanks to both Tudor “Ted” Jelescu and Dan Preston! I’ll look in the tips shared and try them out on my system! Thanks!

[Todd Kopriva]

I’m glad that that page was helpful, Dan.

Here’s a page that links to some more information on this topic.

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