Suggestions On How To Increase AE Speed?

[Sando Calrissian]

Hey,

When i’ve had similar problems i find that if you purge your RAM this can help matters.

[Dan O’brien]

If you’re just previewing/working, then lower the resolution to “quarter”, turn your quality switch to “draft” for each layer, and set up a ram preview that skips every other frame (in the time control window)…

15 layers isn’t that small, especially if you have 3d layers on/nested comps/that kind of stuff…

Dan

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[Umatic]

go into your prefs and click off any checkboxes where comps effect each other in time.

[Spiro]

Thanks for the suggestions!

No 3D layers. But I have masks and blended layers.

Is my graphic card decent?

[Stefan Tapper]

As far as I know the gpu doesn’t really matter. I have a nvidia 7800gtx beast here and if I switch to interactive-open-gl everything I notice is a slightly increase when working with layers switched to solo.

The solo switch can help alot when working with only 3-4 interacting layers especially in hd resolutions.

Another thing I would suggest when working in quarter resolution or draft quality: if you use masks that need to be 1-3 pixel accurate always check them in full res with best quality before rendering. That avoids alot of headache after a 8h render…

[Mylenium]

I don’t think your graphics card is the problem as it is powerful enough for AE. Your problem seems rather random and generic, so I more suspect that you have some background process running that is conflicting with AE’s high RAM usage. The only times when I have such a long wait is when I use effects such as Echo or CC Force Motionblur but other than that I can handle hundreds of layers and tons of compositions without problems.

Mylenium

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[Jimmy Brunger]

What resolution are you working at?

I did a project back at uni that had 100+ layers, many with motion blur on my old G3 iMac with 512MB RAM and it still played ball pretty well. This was at standard def PAL.

Stab in the dark – I’d say it could either be ALOT of mo blurred layers? Or more likely the RAM cache thing mentioned before. If it’s full HDTV res then there’s always proxies? Andrew Kramer’s Videocopilot.com has a good tut on proxies.

Good luck.

[Spiro]

Thanks for all the feedback.

No Echo or Motion Blur. Just lots of layers with blend modes and masks. And I still get the hourglass quite often.

Now I’m wondering if I have some bad RAM? But I will try some of your suggetions in the earlier posts.

Thanks again.