Re: Rendering RAM Requirements

hi charles,

my guess is that shake is more of a truely multi-threaded app.

when 'render multiple frame simultaneously' is enabled in ae, ae launches a render engine for each available core. essentially running an application for every core. each application gets its own chunk of ram (up to 4gb of ram per core) to process frames indepently.

shake renders with just one application and uses multiple cores to aid in rendering a single frame. also, the nodal render architecture of shake may also reduce ram requirements.

in ae, some effects are multi-threaded (i know keylight is one of them, but there are others). if you disable 'render multiple frames simultaeously' when you render, you'll decrease the ram requirements and any multi-threaded effects should render just as fast.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW