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March 10, 2021
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Multi-Frame Rendering is here! (AKA The multithreading you’ve been asking for)

  • March 10, 2021
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Multi-frame Rendering is here for After Effects beta users. Right now, you will have access to Multi-Frame Rendering for export only. Keep your eye on this forum, as we will be rolling out new features until we launch.

 

Internally, we have been testing a representative sample of projects with a suite of hardware configurations, and we are excited to finally put this feature in your hands and get your feedback. Test your unique projects on your own hardware so we can ensure that our performance updates benefit all of our customers and meet speed and quality metrics before we launch.

 

Beta testing of Multi-Frame Rendering will last a little longer than some of our other features because we currently do not support Multi-Frame Rendering in Preview, Motion Graphics templates, Dynamic Link, Adobe Media Encoder and AERender Command Line Interface.

 

Check out the blog and FAQ post to learn the following:

  • What is Multi-Frame Rendering?
  • What factors influence performance?
  • Which effects have been optimized for Multi-Frame Rendering?

 

Start Testing!
We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts and ideas in this forum.

  • How much faster is Multi-Frame Rendering compared to Single-Frame Rendering with your comps on your machine?
  • Does our benchmark project perform at the expected speed on your system?
  • If you run into specific speed or quality issues with your project, share your project with us at mfrbeta@adobe.com.

 

Test Your Comps
Test your comps in Multi-Frame Render mode vs. Single-Frame Render

  • Use Ae Render Queue to export your comp in Multi-Frame mode.
  • Purge both the disk and memory cache, then
  • Use Ae Render Queue to export your project in Single-Frame mode. Note: Use the same output module for Single-Frame and Multi-Frame mode. Go to Preferences -> Memory and Performance -> Enable Multi-Frame Rendering (beta) and uncheck the box to use Single-Frame Rendering Mode

 

Leave a comment and the following information in this forum:

  • Your hardware specs: # cores in your CPU, GB of memory, GPU model and amount of VRAM
  • Single-Frame render speed (Use “Render Time” noted in your status bar)
  • Multi-Frame render speed

 

If you detect any problems with render speed or quality, submit your projects

  • Open your After Effects project
  • File -> Dependencies -> Collect Files -> Collect -> Save As (Name Your Folder)
  • After Effects will store your .aep file, footage, and text report (file log)
  • Zip up your project and send it to us at mfrbeta@adobe.com (or send a link to it hosted on your creative cloud storage if it’s too large to email).

 

Share the following information in your comment:

  • Your hardware specs: # cores in your CPU, GB of memory, GPU model and amount of VRAM
  • Single-Frame render speed (Use “Render Time” noted in your status bar)
  • Multi-Frame render speed
  • Mercury CPU or GPU Mode used

 

Test our benchmark project and see how your hardware compares
We would love to know how your hardware compares to the results we have gathered from our test suite:

 

To test the benchmark project on your machine:

  • Download the benchmark project. 
  • Use Ae Render Queue to export the benchmark project in Multi-Frame mode.
  • Purge both the disk and memory cache, then
  • Go to Preferences -> Memory and Performance -> Enable Multi-Frame Rendering (beta) and uncheck the box to use Single-Frame Rendering Mode
  • Use Ae Render Queue to export the benchmark project in Single-Frame mode. Note: Use the same output module for Single-Frame and Multi-Frame mode.

 

Share the following information in this forum:

  • Your hardware specs: # cores in your CPU, GB of memory, GPU model and amount of VRAM
  • Single-Frame render speed
  • Multi-Frame render speed

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    blocsuite3
    Participant
    March 16, 2021

    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K CPU @ 3.40GHz (12 CPUs)
    Memory: 65536MB RAM
    Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
    ---------------------------------------------------
    Rendering to JPG String.

    (Beta) Multi-frame - 16mins 47secs
    (AE 2021) Single-frame - 28mins 13secs

     

    Any tips on how to improve PC specs to speed this up would be appreciated.

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    Nick2049
    Inspiring
    March 16, 2021

    Is your CPU hitting 100% across all cores/threads when running the MF test?

    Is this CUDA or Software?

    AARP
    AARP
    Participant
    March 16, 2021

    It works very well

    CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

    RAM:  64 GB Dual-Channel 1600 MHz

    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 4GB

    931GB Western Digital WDC WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0

    Single: 14:20

    Multi-Frame: 6:51

     

    NK Films
    NK Films
    Participant
    March 16, 2021

     

    A very welcomed update Adobe - Game changer! Thank you so much for working on this, literally very excited for the future of After Effects.

     

    Here's my specs and results:

     

    Specs

    Mac Pro 2019

    Processor - 2.7 GHz 24-Core Intel Xeon W

    Memory - 512 GB 2933 MHz DDR4

    Graphics - AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 32 GB 

     

    Results (exported as prores 422)

     

    Multiframe - software only - 4min 50 secs

    Multiframe - Mercury enabled - 3min 55 secs

    Single frame (mercury enabled) - 13min 12 seconds

     

    HUGE improvement. 

     

    Rene Andritsch
    Community Expert
    Rene AndritschCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 16, 2021

    AE Benchmark Project on a MacBook Pro (15 Inch, 2018) MacOS Catalina 10.15.7:

    • 2,9 GHz Intel Core i9 (6 cores)
    • 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
    • Radeon Pro 560X 4096 MB
    • Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

     

    Render Times rendered as Lossless:

    • Single Frame (Mercury Software): 24 min 14 sec
    • Multi Frame (Mercury Software): 20 min 23 sec
    • Multi Frame (Metal): 17 min 27 sec
    S
    screen namesss
    Participant
    March 15, 2021

    Only used half of my available cores.

     

    Specs:

    AMD Threadripper 3990x: 64 core 128 thread

    256 GB memory 

    Nvidia RTX 3090 with 24 GB VRAM

     

    Single-Frame rendering speed:   14 min,  54 sec

    Multi-Frame rendering speed: 4 min, 38 sec

     

    I noticed with multi-frame rendering only 64 of the available 128 threads were being used (the primary and secondary threads of the second processor group)

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    screen namesss
    Participant
    March 16, 2021

    I just updated to the new beta version through adobe CC, also changed the output format, adjusted my computer's memory speed, and closed down all other running programs, the culmination of which sped up both render times.  

     

    New Single-Frame: 11 min, 11 sec

    New Multi-Frame: 3 min, 55 sec

     

    The process is still only using half of my processor cores, but it's not an insignificant change in render times.

    J
    Community Manager
    jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
    Jenkmeister
    March 16, 2021

    Re: half your processor cores. Neither AE itself, nor MFR have yet enabled support for processor groups but it is on the backlog to see if we can get it working for MFR. We'd love to see 128 cores rendering 🙂 

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      Scott.C.
      Inspiring
      March 15, 2021

      Windows 10

      Threadripper 3960x  24 Core / 48 Thread

      128 GB DDR4 Ram

       Nvidia 2080ti 11GB

       

      Out of curiosity I opened a "real world" project on some down time.

       

      Standard mix of comps / precomps with effects. Some H264 video files layered in with blending modes, text, track mattes etc. 

       

      6second 18frame comp 1920 x 1080 24p 16bit Mercury on. 

      Single Frame 5min 1s -- CPU usage ~ 50-60% GPU 8%. 

      Ram Usage - 84%

       

      Multi Frame -- 4Min 59s. CPU usage 65-80% Ram climbs to 85% GPU 10-12%. 

      It spends a long time at 0% (2 min) before it starts rendering....so actual render time was probably closer to 3 min if there is a way to get the spin up time down. 

       

      Some of the effects I was using ( not necesarily all of these this is just from the project report) I'm sure many of these are yet to be supported! 

       

      Onwards and upwards. 

       

      Effect: CC Particle World
      Effect: Checkbox Control
      Effect: Color Control
      Effect: Curves
      Effect: Displacement Map
      Effect: Fill
      Effect: Find Edges
      Effect: Fractal Noise
      Effect: Gradient Ramp
      Effect: Invert
      Effect: Lumetri Color
      Effect: Mosaic
      Effect: Motion Tile
      Effect: Noise
      Effect: Point Control
      Effect: Set Matte
      Effect: Slider Control
      Effect: Solid Composite
      Effect: Stereo Mixer
      Effect: Tint
      Effect: Transform
      Effect: Vegas
      Effect: Warp Stabilizer

       

      J
      Community Manager
      jenkmeister17177426Community Manager
      Jenkmeister
      March 16, 2021

      The startup time is something we are working on eliminating currently. Probably another 6-8 weeks of work before we have something to show (this is a deep architectural change to make), but we know it's gotta go! 🙂 

       

      If you look at the effect in the effect control window it should show which effects are not yet MFR supported (yellow warning icon). Or if you enable logging and view the log file, it will show you after the render is completed which effects are and aren't MFR supported yet. Lumitri and Warp Stabilizer stand out as 2 of those off the top of my head.

      AW Mograph
      AW Mograph
      Participant
      March 15, 2021

      Super excited about this option!

      • Hardware:
        • Ryzen 7 3700X, 8 core, 16 threads
        • 64 GB DDR4, 3600
        • RTX 2080, 8GB
      • Single-Frame render speed:  16 minutes 43 seconds
      • Multi-Frame render speed:  9 minutes 28 seconds
      mayahi
      mayahi
      Participating Frequently
      March 15, 2021

      AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
      64gb RAM at 3200mhz
      3060ti
      windows 10 64 bit

      Single: 11:22
      Multi: 7:18

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      bluezaza2
      Participant
      March 15, 2021

      -Win 10

      -AMD Ryzen Threadripper 299WX 32- core - 3.0 GHz

      -64 GB Ram

      - Single 20:09 Mercury GPU

      - Multi 11:40 Mecury GPU

      - Multi 11:25 CUDA GPU

      RTX 3090

      hehenno
      hehenno
      Participant
      March 15, 2021

      iMac Pro

      Intel Xeon W 3 GHz 10-core

      64GB ram

      Vega 64X

       

      The benchmark scene rendered like this:

       

      Single-Frame render: 18 minutes 5 seconds

      Multi-Frame render: 11 minutes 37 seconds

       

       

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