Getting the Most out of 8-Cores and AE
by Dave Mehrman (Dmehrm)
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Feb 17, 2008 at 7:25:48 pm
Hi there,
I was wondering what the best was to optimize my system to get the best performance in AE CS3.
I have a brand new 8-Core MacPro with 10GB of RAM and a Caldigit Raid for my storage.
I had read on another thread and someone mentioned Nucleo Pro 2. I checked it out and it looks like something that really helps get the most out of AE and your system. the Preview Cache looks like something that i don't know how i ever worked with out it before.
I was wondering if there is other software like that out there that might be better or if that is the best and worth the money. Or can i enable things that will boost my performance in AE itself.
Re: Getting the Most out of 8-Cores and AE by Jimmy Brunger on Feb 18, 2008 at 12:48:46 am
You can enable multiprocessing within AE CS3 from the preferences, but to get the extra background/spec and pre-comp proxy benefits you need to buy Nucleo Pro 2. Haven't got it myself yet, but I hear it is indespensible.
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Re: Getting the Most out of 8-Cores and AE by Dave Mehrman on Feb 18, 2008 at 1:01:20 am
When enable multi-process is turned on, it seems like it takes for ever to get my RAM previews going. So much that i give up and turn it off.
Does it only help more with rendering out comps, or am i not being patient enough with the RAM previews starting?
Re: Getting the Most out of 8-Cores and AE by Kevin Camp on Feb 18, 2008 at 5:38:20 pm
when you first try a render or ram preview with multiprocessing enabled there is a lag... this is due to ae having to startup a render engine for each core. once those engines are loaded, though, they won't need to load again, so the next render/preview should start up faster.
you can monitor the render engines and processing via the activity monitor app in applications/utilities. i generally notice that it takes between 10-15 seconds for my 4-core macpro to peg-out the cores.
as far as nucleo pro... people who use it swear by it, and say it works better than ae's multiprocessing aaron rabinowitz did an article on it a year or so ago (pre-cs3), but he discussed many of the key features. click his head on the ae forum page and sift thru his turorials and articles (or search the page for nucleo).
Re: Getting the Most out of 8-Cores and AE by Kevin Camp on Feb 18, 2008 at 5:41:31 pm
one other thing... there was a script that i remember reading about here at the cow that would allow ae to render in the background... it may have been at aeenhancers, but if you search the post archive you may be able to find it. i'm not sure how good it is or if it has been updated for cs3...
