Red + AE CS4 + New MAc 2x2.93 Xeon. Help.

[Ivan Cortazar]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone is using AE CS4 with the new Mac Nehalem.

My system is 6 GB RAM with the New Mac 2x2.93.

I am doing a lot of composite with red Footage. But the way it works now it only allows me to use 2 of the 16 cores. And if I use Neat Image denoise, many times would crash because it doesn't have enough RAM. I'm planning getting 16GB, hopefully this will help.

What are the best settings in Multiprocessing that would make the fastest render. It seems that it needs to allocate 2GB per core minimun, therefore it only allows me to use 2 (the mac is 8 core but acts as 16, and since I can only use 2 core, I assume I am only using 1 core, which is kind of depressing)

It is quite annoying to see in the monitor activity that only two cores work for rendering out of the 16. There must be a better way to make more of the cores render at the same time.

How are you setting up you AE memory settings?

Thanks,

[Stefan Scherperel]

Check this out and see if it helps to configure your system to get more out of it.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WSDD65B476-971A-48e9-A5FD-D90E9A2B996E.html

[Kwan Khan]

humm..

[Ivan Cortazar]

Check this out and see if it helps to configure your system to get more out of it.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WSDD65B476-971A-48e9-A5FD-D90E9A2B996E.html

Thanks, I had already checked that without help.

And now I realized that it is really worse. I can't render out any 4K footage from AE CS4 with the new Nehalem processor. It says "Out of memory (-108) (44::39)

But I go to my Macpro laptop, which is much older than the Macpro, and I can render out without any problem.

I wonder if it is just that my brand new RAM is FU#$%^ or with the way the new Nehalem systems works.

Could any one confirm that AE CS4 can render out 4k footage with the new MacPros and 6 GB RAM? And if so, what are your settings? That way I would know that either my RAM is broken or something is wrong with my system/ AE.

Thank you,

[Chris_Carmike]

Don't know if anyone is still having issues rendering 4k out of AE but it seems that setting all your ram allocation to other programs and then enable caching could resolve this.

Just a thought.

[Andrae Palmer]

I'm on the same system as the OP. 2x2.93GHz with 6GB RAM... I haven't had any issues rendering out from 4k RED footage. I haven't done anything special.

[Ivan Cortazar]

Thanks for your responses. I've bought 16Gb Ram and it goes much better. I think the performance has improved a lot and now I am able to use the multiprocessing without crashing.

[Andrae Palmer]

Thanks for your responses. I've bought 16Gb Ram and it goes much better. I think the performance has improved a lot and now I am able to use the multiprocessing without crashing.

I had purchased 32GB of RAM from OWC but unfortunately the memory was pure crap and i had to return it. AE was running much more smoothly with 2Gb per process. I can only hope that Crucial drops the price of their RAM soon.