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Speeding up the performance of AE
Hi,
I work off of a Mac Pro with 8GB of Ram. My AE is moving at a snail’s pace. I am using hi-res Photoshop images for a reason – zooming into small details of different images but not outrageous sizes by any means. In my memory and cache preference folder what is the best settings to utilize the Ram that my machine is capable of? I’ve put my resolution to half and my layer quality to draft. Is there something I’m missing?
Thx,
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you didn’t mention how many cores you had (i’ll assume 4). if you haven’t enabled multiprocessing, try enabling that in the ae prefs. with 8gb ram you will be able to use all 4 cores with the default memory/cache settings. for performance reasons, you may also want to disable disk caching.
you also may want to look at the technique that andrew kramer uses in one of his tutortials on videocopilot.net, i think it was called earth zoom. the technique uses several small images to zoom from building level out to planet level to avoid needing a single, huge high rez file.
Kevin Camp
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I was also going to suggest the Andrew Kramer tutorial, it is a very effective way of using high res photos without incurring the processing hit. It does require a few extra steps, but the time savings in rendering/interactivity is worth it.
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Which tutorial is that? The slide show one?
thanks
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i think it was called earth zoom… i think it’s one of the tutorials with an earth in the icon (i believe there ar only 3 with an earth).
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Oh, yep you are right I remember now. It is the earth zoom one. Thanks
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