Re: Unused Ram.

hey richie,

i don't know why with some comps ae will use more ram than with others. but it seems that ae will only use the amount of ram that it needs, and, by the task manager grab, it looks like everything is running at it's full potential. the cores are max'ed, you're getting 100% usage, so i assume that ae just doesn't need all the ram for this render.

if you were seeing the cpu usage down, but ram was max'ed, then adding more ram might help.

if you were seeing that cpu usage was down and ram was not full, then you'd start looking into a faster storage solution and/or drive bus.

but for this render it seems that more processing power is what you need.

i'm sure you know this, but you can always utilize the shift-ram preview option. you can set it up in the time controls palette. for really slow renders you can set it to down sample the resolution and skip frames.

you can also use the region of interest option. it's at the bottom of the preview window (looks like a rectangle in a rectangle). use it to section off just part of the comp to preview. you can toggle it on and off to go back to full raster.

hd is bringing back the tricks we used when a fast computer was 233-300 mhz.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW