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mirkoj
10-24-2008, 02:52 PM
Can any1 give me few tips for setting up Render multi frames simultaneosly option in afterFX for 8 core and 8Gb RAM machine. Rigth now it get's perty choked when all procesess suck up all ram and it is going slower than with simu frame rendering turned off.
I tried lowering cache RAM but doesn't seems to have any effect.
Also never got any of those cores even up to 50% usage.
Any1 can shed some light on this?
thank you
PiotrekM
10-24-2008, 09:06 PM
If your comp takes alot of ram or there are alot of footages to load (app is waiting for hard drive to load images to ram), then this 'multi-process-render' is pretty useless.

So for me this lame/hacky feature is 99% of time useless
mirkoj
10-25-2008, 04:52 PM
there should be at least option to use only 2 or 4 or something like that cores.. is there?
XminusOne
10-25-2008, 07:41 PM
Have a look at this.

http://aescripts.com/throttle-11/
chemkid
10-27-2008, 01:48 PM
thank you for this fantastic link, XminusOne!

just great!



have fun,


chem!
mirkoj
10-27-2008, 02:39 PM
Maybe I installed it wrong or what but I can't see option to enter number of CPUs to use?
Any help?
chemkid
10-28-2008, 08:52 AM
did you follow the instructions?

check this:

http://aescripts.com/scripts/images/BG_RendererCS3_tutorial.mov


hope that helps,


chem!
mirkoj
10-28-2008, 12:19 PM
got it!
skiped that 8.0.2 update part :)
thank you guys!
Apollo05
11-08-2008, 07:33 PM
get cs4, on a 64 bit pc u'll be able to render using all of your RAM instead of the default 2gb in previous versions....

my render speeds are unreal now, with 8gb RAM
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