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After Effects 8.0.2 released
posted on January 23rd, 2008 by lloyd in News 3 Comments »
The 8.0.2 update which mainly adds OSX “Leopard” support on mac among many bug fixes also adds a new preference which lets you indicate how many processors should be used when the Multiprocessing “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously” is on. This is a very welcome addition for BG Renderer users that didn’t have enough RAM to handle all their processors, especially on 8-proc machines which should have a minimum of 16gb of RAM installed. Here’s the official blurb from Adobe:
Multiprocessing performance issues with multi-core machines, especially high-end 8-core hardware. When all 8 cores try to render a complex or memory intensive composition with Render Mutliple Frames Simultaneously, the application can become memory starved if each process has insufficient memory. To remedy this, there is a text preference to control the maximum number of cores that Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously will use. Open the text preference file and look in the ["MP"] section for: “MaxNumberOfProcesses” = “0″. “0″ is the default setting, which disables this preference setting. For better performance on an 8-core machine with 8GB RAM, for example, change the “0″ setting to “4″ and save the preference file and restart After Effects. This restricts multiprocessing with RenderMultiple Frames Simultaneously to 4 cores, each getting approximately 2GB of RAM.
Magnum - The Edit Detector
posted on January 18th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts 37 Comments »
This script automatically detects edits in footage. To use it you simply select a footage layer in a comp, set the work area to the region you’d like to find edits and tell Magnum to go to work! Magnum can then split the layer at each edit point or set layer markers where the edits are. It works very well at the default detect level, but tricky footage might need this adjusted.
The 8.0.2 update which mainly adds OSX “Leopard” support on mac among many bug fixes also adds a new preference which lets you indicate how many processors should be used when the Multiprocessing “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously” is on. This is a very welcome addition for BG Renderer users that didn’t have enough RAM to handle all their processors, especially on 8-proc machines which should have a minimum of 16gb of RAM installed. Here’s the official blurb from Adobe:
Multiprocessing performance issues with multi-core machines, especially high-end 8-core hardware. When all 8 cores try to render a complex or memory intensive composition with Render Mutliple Frames Simultaneously, the application can become memory starved if each process has insufficient memory. To remedy this, there is a text preference to control the maximum number of cores that Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously will use. Open the text preference file and look in the ["MP"] section for: “MaxNumberOfProcesses” = “0″. “0″ is the default setting, which disables this preference setting. For better performance on an 8-core machine with 8GB RAM, for example, change the “0″ setting to “4″ and save the preference file and restart After Effects. This restricts multiprocessing with RenderMultiple Frames Simultaneously to 4 cores, each getting approximately 2GB of RAM.
Magnum - The Edit Detector
posted on January 18th, 2008 by lloyd in Scripts 37 Comments »
This script automatically detects edits in footage. To use it you simply select a footage layer in a comp, set the work area to the region you’d like to find edits and tell Magnum to go to work! Magnum can then split the layer at each edit point or set layer markers where the edits are. It works very well at the default detect level, but tricky footage might need this adjusted.
This script automatically detects edits in footage. To use it you simply select a footage layer in a comp, set the work area to the region you’d like to find edits and tell Magnum to go to work! Magnum can then split the layer at each edit point or set layer markers where the edits are. It works very well at the default detect level, but tricky footage might need this adjusted.