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Is your computer optimized for After Effects? In this post, we share a simple tip to rev up your processing speeds in AE.
If your rendering time is taking longer than expected, a change in RAM allocation may be all you need to speed up After Effects.
If you are trying to view/ram preview the entire 6 minutes then yes you are going to run out of memory long before you get even close to the end, even at 1/4 screen resolution. You need more memory and /or look at only small sections of the video at a time. Effects Look Cut-Off or Masked. One common issue people have with After Effects happens when. I have a MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 2060 6GB GDRR6 192-bit HDMI/DP Ray Tracing Turing Architecture VR Ready Graphics Card and when I use sflyseyerect.
I confess, when I starting using After Effects a few years back I was befuddled at the long rendering times. My computer was new and had plenty of RAM, but rendering was taking forever. Then, I learned this quick tip that has dramatically altered the performance of the app. Hopefully it’ll do the same for you!
Adobe gives you the option to change how much of your computer’s RAM is being used by After Effects (and the other applications in the Creative Suite). Depending on the RAM you have installed in your system, you will want to experiment with your allocation settings. After Effects is 64 bit, which allows you to take full advantage of your available RAM (from Adobe):
- You can render much larger compositions—both for preview and for final output—with larger frame sizes and larger source files.
- RAM previews can be much longer.
- You can work with higher color bit depths without encountering memory limitations.
- After Effects can cache more items, which reduce the frequency with which frames and components of frames are re-rendered.
Modifying your AE RAM allocation settings is simple. Here’s how it’s done:
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1. Open up After Effects
2. Go into your AE Preferences
Click on After Effects > Preferences > Memory & Multiprocessing.
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3. Change ‘RAM for Other Applications’
4. Click ‘Ok’
And you’re done! You should see an increase in your rendering speeds in After Effects. If your computer is still going slow you might need either a new graphics card or maybe even a better processor. If you want more info about how to optimize your machine for After Effects check out the system requirements or memory and storage pages on Adobe’s site.
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When you run After Effects, you could receive messages like, 'Unable to allocate 0.000 MB of memory' or, 'Unable to allocate 0.002 MB of memory.'
It can be a project-specific issue or a system configuration issue.
You could try to use the steps listed below to resolve the issue.
- Try to reduce the amount of memory allocated to other applications:
- Select After Effects CC > Preferences > Memory.
- Change the RAM reserved for other applications and click OK.
- Purge Memory and Disk Cache:
- Select Edit > Purge > All Memory & Disk Cache.
- To delete all the files from your disk cache, click OK.
Another way to clean Media and Disk cache is:- Select After Effects CC > Preferences > Media & Disk Cache.
- In the Preferences dialog, click Empty Disk Cache to clean disk cache and Clean Database and Cache to clean media cache.
- If Mercury Transmit is enabled, disable it in Preferences > Video Preview.
- Switch Ray Tracing to CPU:
- If you have used Ray Traced 3D Renderer, select Preferences > Previews.
- In the Preferences dialog, click GPU Information and switch Ray Tracing to CPU.
- Remove any third-party plugins.MacOS location/library/application support/adobe/common/Windows locationC:Program FilesAdobeCommonPlug-insC:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Media Encoder CC 2017Support Files (for external plugins)Usefull thoughts for daily life. Home; Facebook Twitter Google Plus Linkedin Instagram YouTube Pinterest VK Email. March 15, 2018 Sensei. Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. The Virtual Dojo is an online zendo (space for Zen) with daily meditation and real-time Zen training events, as well as a website of resources for Zen training at one’s own pace. We are part of Chosei Zen, which includes the physical spaces of Daikozen-ji in Madison and the Spring Green Dojo in Wisconsin. Students are welcome to flow between the three dojos, as possible. Seattle zen dojo.
- Create a pre-comp of the existing composition. To create a pre-comp, select all the tracks in the timeline and right click. From the drop-down menu, select Pre-compose.
- Reset preferences for After Effects. Make sure that After Effects are closed in your machine (while following the steps).MacOS
- Go to your desktop and click GO on the Menu bar.
- Select Go to Folder from the drop-down and type the following path: /library/preferences/adobe
- From the list of applications, select After Effects and rename it as ’After Effects1’.
- Go to Documents folder in your computer and open the folder named Adobe.
- In the Adobe folder, rename the After Effects folder as ’After Effects1’.
Windows- In the Run command (Win key+R) dialog, type %appdata%.
- Open the folder named Adobe.
- Rename the After Effects folder as 'After Effects1'.
- Close the window and open Documents folder.
- In the Adobe folder After Effects folder and rename it to 'After Effects1'.
- Go to your desktop and click GO on the Menu bar.
- Check the composition creating issue:
- Create a blank project.
- Turn on Caps Lock and try to import the faulty project.
- Open compositions one by one and toggle Caps Lock to check which composition is creating issue.
- Ensure that the Illustrator files are offline or try to convert the Illustrator files to Shape layers.
- If you have used multiple display cards, disable one of them.
- If you have applied any expressions, convert them to keyframes.
If you run into any other issues, or you want to post, discuss, and be part of our knowledgeable community, visit the After Effects forums. To report suspected bugs or suggest modifications to existing features in an Adobe product, use the Feature request/bug report form.