After Effects Memory and Multiprocessing
- Started
- Last post
- 1 Response
- raybolger2
Work gave me a new MBP laptop with 16 Gigs of RAM. I'm going to be working in After Effects a lot, so I'd like to allocate as much of that RAM in the Memory and Multiprocessing Preferences in AE.
Should I check "Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously"? How many CPUs do you reserve for other applications?
Thanks for any help!!
- akiersky0
Rendering multiple frames can help a lot depending on the content of the frames. Certain things won't render any faster as they are already multi-threaded processes (I think motion blur uses multiple frames, also 3d stuff). I always check it and let AE figure it out, it can only go faster...
I've had mixed results with OPENGL, sometimes it speeds it up a lot, other times it renders like garbage. I think it depends on the content of the animation.
If you can dedicate your computer to rendering, I'd give all the CPU's to AE. If not, maybe leave one for other apps.
I would also always recommend rendering uncompressed Animation quality .mov files and using Handbreak to compress (it's free, super fast, and great quality)