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Sluggish performance when creating dynamic links between PP and AE
Has anyone noticed how slow the timeline behaves when you create a dynamic link between Premiere Pro 2.0 and After effects 7.0? Even with a low resource intensive plugin like Trapcodes’s “Shine”. Any help in optimizing for better performance would be appreciated.
My systems is a Dual-core Pentium 3 ghz, 2 gb of memory, an ATI x600 PCI-express graphics card with 256 mb of memory, and about a terrabyte of mixed drives (1 – firewire, 2-USb 2.0, and internal SATAs)
Best Regards,
Joe
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6 Replies
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Have you tried the Draft Quality setting in the Program panel’s wing menu?
Also, the longer the length of the DL clip, the slower it will perform. Consider what you have available when you RAM preview in AE.
-Jeff
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How much RAM do you have? 4GB? Hopefully not because it could be the root of the problem.
Paul
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Paul – I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but I have 2 GB of ram. I would have thought that would be enough but maybe not. I beginning to think that the Dynamic link functionality is really what everyone wants, but technically speaking it might be very limited because of performance problems. I wish there was a way that you could configure it to cache to disk. This would still provide you with the functionality and work flow and it would be manageable for those who only have 2 GB of Ram. Working from the Premiere Timeline and then branching out to AE when you need an effect or remapping of time makes so much sense.
One thing I think is somewhat disingenuous is the training DVDs that come with the bundle. They make it look like a snap.
Regards,
Joe
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Remember that with Dynamic Link, you’re running two apps at once. After Effects is running to do all the rendering. Even if you don’t have it actively loaded, Premiere Pro will have launched a “headless” version that runs in the background. But that doesn’t really cut down on the system resources that AE needs to render. The performance you get should be about the same as if you were running AE and RAM previewing the comp, and also running Premiere Pro and scrubbing the timeline at the same time.
So it’s all down to the performance of your machine and how well it handles two resource hog applications at once. A faster processor will probably serve you better than more RAM. The disk caching idea is a pretty good one, though.
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Tim – I do understand what you are saying, but I am not sure I agree with the point that it is the same performance if you were running AE and PP independently. I was able to run PP1.5 and AE6.5 at the same time with some performance issues, but nothing like this. I don’t know if it is the new versions or the dynamic link. I will try to do some tests to find out. I do believe it related to the dependency of the apps.
I have an additional question (Hardware) … Is it better to have a single 3.6 ghz hyper threaded machine or a 3.0 ghz dual-core processor? Is there much of a difference?
Thanks.
Joe
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dual core or more is the way to go. A dual xeon 3.6 with ht, or an opteron with 4 cores is going to be much better than a super fast single core.
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