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- Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy!
- Difficulty: Beginner
You may not be able to clone yourself to get more work done, but After Effects can with the right settings. In this tutorial, we take a quick look at memory and multiprocessing in CS4 and CS5 and the advantages of 64bit applications. For more information check out the Adobe Help Page.
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By Won Novalis
I am a motion graphics and video editor as well as technical director. I work for Abandon Films, a production company in Central Virginia that I co-founded in 2007. Feel free to connect with me on Vimeo or on Twitter.
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Just like those Volkswagen commercials say: short but good. Thanks for the tip.
Word, I can’t wait to I get my new system and the cs5 suit :D
Whoa! 16GB Ram. I only have four!
Thanks :)
Thanks man!
Won… great quick tip. Keep up the awesome work.
Hi Won. First of all thanks for a great tip and that article of yours has also been a kind of guide for me, when I was upgrading my comp.
I have one question and would be very happy if you’d answer: you see, I currently equipped with 8GBs of RAM and turned on that feature to render multiple frames simultaneously. I am working with CS4. The problem is that when AE runs the copies of itself this seems to somehow affect my Windows. So when I try to RAM preview it renders one or two frames, then kinda glitches and stops and then, after about 10-15 seconds, renders till the end, but after that asks to close all the copies of AE. The whole reason why I wanted this upgrade was to work faster, but with such a pause I am, on the contrary, decreasing in speed. I suppose it’s somehow my AE’s or my OS’ fault. Do you know what might be the reason? Or how can I fix it? I really need your help and would really appreciate it.
Thanks for attention, bye.
Can some one get this option into a pallet, so its easily accessible?
awesome tips! thanks!
Thanks for the very helpful quick tips.
It was really useful as I have bought a new i7 workstation with a ton of ram and was struggling a bit on how to set it up.
1st of all really thanx for breaking down, the unbreakable to understand for “entry level guyz who bought the expensive machines but don’t know how to fully benefit from it “, and yup that’s me :P
Really appreciate it.
But what confuses me alot is sth else “The GPU”
I can’t really afford to buy a Workstation GPU like quadros from Nvidia
i had to buy a Gaming GPU, like Geforce / Radeon GPUs
i end up with ATI 5850 HD. i was in a hurry to wait for the mighty “CUDA” products so i said, hey ATI said they have the same Technology power which is “ATI Stream Technology” but later what scares me is not seeing the ATI stream logo in softwares as Nvidia’s CUDA tell now, was it a mistake buying ATI ?!
To be honest i saw the dramatic power of OpenGL with my ATI, when u apply the Cartoon Effect with and with out OpenGL help, really was incomparable!, Is that even much powerfull with CUDA? ,
Does ATI Stream had sth to do with this Dramatic change? and if so how to make sure that you benefit from ur GPU? what and when exactly GPU play its role the best in Previewing, final Render or what?
ughhh, this questions been around my head for the last 4 month!!!
appreciate answering one question at least.
Mr Won, what processor do you have… cuz 8 cores…. ohhh man that´s a monster !
Hey Orlando,
I was using Windows on a Mac Pro via Bootcamp (http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/)
Mac Pros can make good windows workstations as well now that they use Intel parts and processors.
The specific Mac Pro was the March 2010 Version with the eight Core Nahalem Processor (which is really 2 quad core Nahalems on the same board). The specific Nahalem processor that apple uses for that model I believe is the Intel Xeon W3530.
http://www.apple.com/macpro/
Now they have the new 12 core models available, which is really 2 eight core Intel Westmere Processors on one board (More specifically the Intel Xeon E5620 processor).
http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html