I have 512 m of ram.
Will getting more ram speed up Adobe After effects or Premiere rendering.
I have a 1.9 G CPU

That should work fine. RAM always helps if you can afford it. Just remember to close your Timeline and Composition window before you render. I read somewhere that those two things will slow down your rendering alittle.

Rob

I have a gig of RDRAM, and Premiere seems to love having the extra ram on hand. Also I have a 2.4 gigahertz p4.

I've got dual 2.0 GHz CPUs and 1.5Gig Ram and AE often uses 60% of the available ~1.5Gig. I don't know if the processor(s) are limiting or not, but when graphed the CPU usage clips at 100% only occasionally, so I don't think so.

Thus I think extra RAM would help you, assuming your CPU isn't the limiting factor.

Just be aware that Windows ME, Win98 and downwards have a limit of 512 MB RAM. You can install more, but it will not be used correctly, and make the system highly unstable.

Use Win 2000 or XP with more than 512 MB.

Hans Henrik

How much difference does a video card make? Is its only affect the screen resolution that you are viewing? Looking at getting a dual Xeon system but could not find one with an AGP slot and most of the good video cards seem to require AGP.

In my experience Adobe products are happiest with a gig of ram or more. However, they usually don't use more than 1 gig. If you have more it will allow you to have more programs and windows open at the same tim.

I have found video cards have very little effect on rendering times for most video. Some 3D work may benefit, but not my area of expertise.