VERY slow AF performance

[Curious Turtle]

How big are you PSD files? Are you consistently scaling them down well below 100% without ever needing to go near 100%?

After Effects uses the entire frame of a clip, even if it can only see one pixel of it in the comp. This can quickly bog down a system if you work with hi-res images.

If this is the case, scale your stills down in Photoshop prior to bringing them into AE. If that’s not, then give us a few more details of the project.

Hope that helps,
Ben

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[Hannes Paulsson]

Have you enabled “multiprocessing” in your preferences? If so, DISABLE it. When using a computer with less than 4gbs of ram, this setting can often slow down after effects considerably.

[Gerrit Vooren]

Thanks much, will try that for sure.
Getting another 2 gigs or RAM would help too I guess?
Any other suggestions to make my machine run AF faster?

[Gerrit Vooren]

Thanks so much Dave for your extensive e-mail.
We’re renting a top of the line G5 for a week, I think that’s the way to go. Dual intel processor, 16GB or Ram, that should do it.
; )

Have a great Holiday!

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[Hannes Paulsson]

Well, the first thing is just that, buy more RAM. And a processor with more cores. I use a Intel i7 with 8 threads and 12gbs of ram, and since I bought that AE is runnig much much faster.