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captbruisin@hotmail.com
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November 23, 2019
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Maximize CPU USage for Faster Render Times in AE and ME

  • November 23, 2019
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I'd be grateful for some help. I built my PC with the following hardware:

 

I'm running After Effects v.16.1.2, and Media Encoder 13.1.3

I'm getting render times slower than I think I should because my 12-core processor isn't being utilized anywhere near max capacity and my render times are maybe 5-10 min for a 2 minute video using an H264 codec, with a Vimeo 480p preset. I noticed tried using the GPU to render and the Mercury Software Only option. Neither seemed to matter on render time. I got this CPU thinking it would crush render times, but I'm not sure it is. Any thoughts?

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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November 24, 2019

If you want to be able to use more of your computer's rendering power try using Render Garden or any of the other background rendering solutions. I own several but RenderGarden - Toolfarm is my favorite.

Martin_Ritter
Martin_Ritter
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November 23, 2019

AE doesn't care about cores a lot, what depends are highest clock speeds. GPU is hardly used, too.

 

The only thing to speed up render time is to use a render manager like RenderGarden, RenderBoss, or BG Renderer.

They are launching AE render engine more than once, so you can render in parallel - as long as your RAM is not filled up!

 

*Martin

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captbruisin@hotmail.comAuthor
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November 23, 2019

Thanks for the response. Do you mean it is faster to render multiple comps at once or it's faster for each comp?

Martin_Ritter
Martin_Ritter
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November 23, 2019

These render render managers let you render multiply frames at once.

 

That's all.

It doesn't matter if they are from the same comp, or another comp. If you have 10 comps with 100 frames, that's 1000 frames to render. AE and AME can only render 1 frame at a time. With the use of those managers, you launch the render modul like 4 times - rendering 4 frames at a time and being 4 times faster.

As soon as you ran out of RAM, the magic is over, because now you need significant more time for each frame, because RAM is swapt to hard disk and this is very slow from the processors point of view.

 

*Martin

 

 

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