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Everyone please feel free not to read this. This is to the dude that said RAM doesn't matter and anyone else that might stumble on it. I can make my posts a little too long. Something I'm working on. ;)
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/14-tips-faster-rendering-effects/
https://modio.tv/how-to-make-after-effects-render-faster/
Ahh, I am not going to do this but the I googled "top ten ways to increase your render speeds in after effects" and every single one mentioned RAM in the top 5 and if it wasn't for the "duh" factor (no offense) it would probably be #1 on all of them.
Here is the reason RAM and the more you have is so important.
When rendering (or doing any massive computation on a computer) you are not being bottle necked by the fastest thing but by the slowest thing so you want the fastest drives, RAM, Bus, CPU, Graphics Card (with its own RAM and CPU and the more the merrier) and it's not just one that makes the speed but all working together. A bad analogy is a good day at the beach requires sand, sun, water and beer. Any one of those might be okay by themselves but when they work together perfectly you have a nice day at the beach.
Now with RAM, what it does in specifics to video and other majorly taxing processes that a computer must do, RAM is so important because as the traffic gets heavy (which is exactly what happens when we are rendering).
As the CPU, GPU, drives, are doing their work and the amount of RAM INCREASES the amount of stuff that can be held in resident memory and "worked on", encoded, encrypted, etc as it is being render and the more the computer can hold RAM, THE FASTER it can get done.
I understand that RAM being the thing that will speed you up the most (I mean obviously if we are talking about an Apple IIe or Mac Tower from 2015 it's different). But RAM does not just give you space to do a preview of your video.
I didn't know this either and a guy that knows a lot more than me told me to increase to 64 from 48 and when I did, the difference (and there was no other change) was MASSIVE. It was not negligible, it was the best performance increase I ever saw on a computer and it was because of the 48 to 64. AND THATS not even a lot but it's exponential. If I could put 128 it would be sick fast.
So no, what you are saying about RAM is completely untrue. If you can, max the ram out to what the chipset will allow which is probably 16 or 32 (new iMac users can use 64) and most new chipsets allow 64 and some 128 now.
Was even better than when I put my first SSD drive in my 2009 tower. A lot better.
You are right about the multi-processor but you HAVE to know how to use it with the program you are running it out of.
For example, DO NOT hyper-thread out of Premiere Pro ever but in After Effects to properly use the multi-core with hyper-threading you have to tell it that you have exactly HALF the amount you have.
Reason is that if you have 8 cores, hyperthread thinks you have 16 but 8 are virtual and if it's trying to work on a virtual one while rendering, it will slow you down a ton but you actually just lower your chance of that happening by saying you have 8 cores instead of 16. It will still catch some virtuals but the speed increase will be faster than if you didn't do it. If you leave it at the 16 which it defaults to, you will actually run about 30% slower.
Here is where you change that:
Dude, I spend half my life looking how to make these things run faster. Believe me, nobody wants/needs faster like I do. Lol.
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