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Patrik Vale · July 10th, 2009, 04:00 AM

Hi!

I`m just buying a new Core i7 editing machine, and wondering if there is need to buy 12 gb of ram. Can After effects use that much ram? Is 6 gb enough? I need to know because of motherboard...

Thanks in advance

Noa Put · July 10th, 2009, 10:58 AM

on AE support page I found the following:

"After Effects on 64-bit Windows operating systems can use up to 4 GB of RAM with no special configuration for each After Effects process.
In this form of multiprocessing, each background process renders its own frame and runs on a separate processor core (CPU). The number of processes used to render multiple frames simultaneously is never more than the number of processors"

As I understand this you can assign max 4gb of memory to each core meaning 16gb of memory for a quadcore, but I guess you still need to leave some for your own OS to operate.

Steve Nelson · July 11th, 2009, 12:13 PM

This whitepaper covers the topic pretty well at least as a high level discussion of 64-bit performance. The particulars on After Effects are on pages 3 and 4.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creati...m_64bit_wp.pdf

Note their tip at the end of page 4:

"For After Effects, be sure you have the 9.0.1 update, and adjust the amount of memory
per core for the Memory & Multiprocessing option under Preferences. After Effects will
also instance itself, but it does this per CPU core, and each core can use 4GB."

Steve Nelson · July 11th, 2009, 03:37 PM

I just found a more detailed article:

Adobe After Effects CS4 * Memory & Multiprocessing preferences

Hope that helps.....

July 10th, 2009, 04:00 AM	#1
Patrik Vale Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Croatia Posts: 50	After Effects CS4 & 12gb RAM Hi! I`m just buying a new Core i7 editing machine, and wondering if there is need to buy 12 gb of ram. Can After effects use that much ram? Is 6 gb enough? I need to know because of motherboard... Thanks in advance

July 10th, 2009, 10:58 AM	#2
Noa Put Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 9,510	on AE support page I found the following: "After Effects on 64-bit Windows operating systems can use up to 4 GB of RAM with no special configuration for each After Effects process. In this form of multiprocessing, each background process renders its own frame and runs on a separate processor core (CPU). The number of processes used to render multiple frames simultaneously is never more than the number of processors" As I understand this you can assign max 4gb of memory to each core meaning 16gb of memory for a quadcore, but I guess you still need to leave some for your own OS to operate.

July 11th, 2009, 12:13 PM	#3
Steve Nelson Regular Crew Join Date: May 2009 Location: Monument, CO Posts: 109	This whitepaper covers the topic pretty well at least as a high level discussion of 64-bit performance. The particulars on After Effects are on pages 3 and 4. http://www.adobe.com/products/creati...m_64bit_wp.pdf Note their tip at the end of page 4: "For After Effects, be sure you have the 9.0.1 update, and adjust the amount of memory per core for the Memory & Multiprocessing option under Preferences. After Effects will also instance itself, but it does this per CPU core, and each core can use 4GB."

July 11th, 2009, 03:37 PM	#4
Steve Nelson Regular Crew Join Date: May 2009 Location: Monument, CO Posts: 109	I just found a more detailed article: Adobe After Effects CS4 * Memory & Multiprocessing preferences Hope that helps.....