How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly?

	Re: How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly? by Kevin Camp on May 19, 2009 at 6:08:31 pm there is an .ini file that you can set to get windows to see 4gb of ram (search for 'windows 4gb switch' for more info), but i believe that 1gb is reserved for windows, 3gb for other applications. the first thing you might try in resetting the ae preference file. quit ae and hold ctrl+alt+shift when reopenning ae, then hit 'ok'. this will rest the preferences to their default. see how your project works with the default settings. a few common things that can negatively affect performance in ae are: turning disk cahce on if you only have one drive or one drive bus (like the internal drive bus) for your media, renders and disk cache. disabling disk cache can often improve performance in this case by lessening the amount of data being forced through a single drive bus. working with footage that uses temporal compression (or interframe compression)... codecs like mpeg-2, hdv, mpeg-4, h.264 and others use temporal compression which will slow after effects down considerably. if you are using any of those, convert you footage to uncompressed, lossless, quicktime photo-jpeg, dv (or dvcprohd), avid dnxhd or any codec that uses only intraframe compression and ae will work much better. enabling multiprocessing with too little ram... the amount of ram you'll want to have for each processing core will vary based on the project. sd projects can get by with 1gb per core, but hd projects will work better with 2gb or more (up to 4gb). but some projects are just more demanding on a system, and yours may be one of those. Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly? by david bogie on May 19, 2009 at 6:10:06 pm You might want to visit the adobe.com discussion and forum areas. Plenty of discussion about crashing and tweaking performance. you can also just scroll down here for a few pages and see what turns up. Seem to be many posts about PCs with Intel processors working better than those with others but I'm on a Macintosh and I've got my own problems. bogiesan Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly? by Todd Kopriva on May 20, 2009 at 3:07:46 pm You should also check out the "Improve performance" section of After Effects Help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated putting the 'T' back in 'RTFM' : After Effects Help on the Web --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly? by Dave LaRonde on May 19, 2009 at 6:15:22 pm [karl velarde] "...pls tell me what kind of specs i need and configurations..." You can check on specs on the Adobe web site. I notice you have AMD processors in your machine. You need to be careful: I also have AMD processors in my machine, and i face the prospect of getting a replacement motherboard that runs Intel processors. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly? by Dave LaRonde on May 20, 2009 at 4:55:46 pm The big difference between laptop and desktop is that it's no big deal to have multiple hard drives. Having a few hard drives is a very, VERY good situation when working with video production software and media files. Another significant difference: you generally have better connectivity to peripherals on a destop machine. A third important difference: a desktop machine has slots for specialized cards, like video capture cards, cards that connect to proper video monitors, etc. The bottom line: yeah, you CAN get things done on a laptop, but don't expect to get the sun, the moon and the stars on it. Dave LaRonde Sr. Promotion Producer KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: How can i make after effects CS4 run smoothly? by Kevin Camp on May 20, 2009 at 5:14:07 pm yep, everything that dave said, plus a notebook with the same specs as a tower will probably cost 2x as much and hold far less ram... it's easy to find a tower that can be expanded to 32gb of ram vs. most notebooks top out at 4-gb. if you *need* portability, then its a sacrifice worth making, if you don't then you're probably better off with a tower. if you don't need to do video work on the notebook, you could always pick up a netbook for $200-400 and a tower and still come out ahead money wise. Kevin Camp Senior Designer KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index