After Effects In Suite Rendering

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Please bare with me as I am new to After Effects and the Adobe Suite. I had previously been utilizing Apple Motion and Final Cut Pro X. I recently just built a new machine so I could switch suites. I have been utilizing tutorials to figure out how learn the skill sets I have from the other suites to the Adobe's product line. I noticed as I am creating certain things seem like they are processor/cpu/gpu intensive because they're only rendering say 1frame/second for reference. I'm sure it's not exact but trying to give a baseline for speed. I used the task manager to see what resources are being utilized at the time of the render to see if I need to purchase additional RAM or perhaps upgrade the GPU if the render speeds aren't what I'd like them to be. I quickly noticed that After Effects is only utilizing about 25% of the RAM and generally less than 10% of my CPU/GPU. Why isnt the render say 3 or 4 times faster utilzing 75%-100% of my RAM to give me faster render speeds while in the program? The export render speeds are INCREDIBLY fast and have far exceeded my expectations but when I am actually in the workflow and editing, keyframing, and doing basic edits it has to continuously re-render the edit which I have to wait for. It seems as if the suite isn't using all of my computers resources to render faster. Seems as if it's only running at a third of it's potential for what I have. Is there a way for me to optimize this? Are my settings potentially incorrect?

The hardware in my machine is:

INTEL I9-9900K

G.SKILL 32GB 2X16 D4 3200 RIPJAWS

EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER BLACK GAMING Overclocked Dual-Fan 8GB GDDR6 PCIe 3.0 Video Card

Andrew Yoole · Answer

After Effects transitioned away from a multithreaded environment some years ago. As a result, AE alone often doesn't utilise full CPU or RAM due to otehr bottlenecks including GPU effects, drive speed etc.

Running a render via Adobe Media Encoder simultaneously allows you to render two threads at once, so you'll see more CPU and RAM usage, but it means rendering two seperate output files.

But the best way to completely utilise your hardware is with a third party render management tool, the most common of which is RenderGarden. This software takes your AE renders, splits them into multiple segments and renders them simultaneously on seperate CPU threads. It's well worth the money if you do plenty of big renders.

http://www.mekajiki.com/rendergarden/

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