AE Multithreading

[RAM-Studio]

Hi,

Can someone from Adobe let me know when AfterEffects will get multithreading feature for previews and rendering ? It's removed after CC2014 and I'm paying subscription for last 4 years and hoping it's gonna be included in next release but still nothing . How much more ?
My Dual Xeon workstation with 4 GPUs is not properly used in AE, It uses 3-4% of my CPU (40cores/80 Threads in total but AE use 1core) and with 10 layers/few easy text FADE effects my preview playback is whooping 1.5 FPS on 720p video and rendering 150 seconds (2.5 minutes) of such video takes 25-30 minutes to complete .

Please Adobe make AE use cores/GPUs properly like all modern apps nowdays.

Thanks

[Dave_LaRonde]

Adobe won't breathe a word until it's time to release a new version.  I don't know of any software developer that does.

[ToolfarmJP]

Hello,

Your PC sounds powerful enough. Therefore, you can use a tricky way to launch After Effects. It is a multi-launch. You open Command Prompt (cmd.exe).

1. You type the command like this below.

cd C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2017\Support Files

and hit Enter key

2. You type the command like this.

AfterFX.exe -m

and hit Enter key.

You repeat the command of AfterFX.exe -m as much as you want to launch After Effects.

[RAM-Studio]

Thanks for replyes guys

HidekiTakemura - will that still have 1 GUI and multiple afex.exe (like in old AE days where multithreading meant numerous of *.exe in task manager) and AA CC2017 will somehow know to distribute frames between exe files ?
Will then RAM usage become a problem since there is no settings per instance (like in old AE) where we tell each AEFX.exe how much RAM it can use before flushing/purging ? I have 128GB RAM but AE in this project sucks up easily over 35GB RAM.

DigitalSpatula - thanks for info, i'll check video/demo

[Davide Boscolo]

And after I have multi instances of AE open, what?

[Davide Boscolo]

HidekiTakemura  wrote

Hello,

Your PC sounds powerful enough. Therefore, you can use a tricky way to launch After Effects. It is a multi-launch. You open Command Prompt (cmd.exe).

1. You type the command like this below.

cd C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2017\Support Files

and hit Enter key

2. You type the command like this.

AfterFX.exe -m

and hit Enter key.

You repeat the command of AfterFX.exe -m as much as you want to launch After Effects.

This is amazing! Soooo much faster!!

Thanks mate!

[am2082]

What is the proper command to run this on a Mac?

[Roei Tzoref]

If you want to do this on mac:

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/effects-hack-opening-multiple-projects-time/

[am2082]

Thanks!!

So, how is that any different than just sending it to the Media Encoder? Will it process faster if another AE Instance is opened? Or will that take more resources and away from the render?

[DigitalSpatula]

I'm right there with you!

Try this out. It works great for your kind of set up.

BG Renderer Pro - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com

Thx,

Steve

[ToolfarmJP]

Hello,

Have you already changed the setting of this below?

Preferences > Memory > RAM reserved for other applications

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Hi RAM-Studio,

Can someone from Adobe let me know when AfterEffects will get multithreading feature for previews and rendering ? It's removed after CC2014 and I'm paying subscription for last 4 years and hoping it's gonna be included in next release but still nothing . How much more ?

For a response from the product manager regarding the feature, Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously (Multiprocessing), see this thread: Re: When will Adobe release information about the new multi-core processing architecture that will b...

I hope that answers your question.

Please Adobe make AE use cores/GPUs properly like all modern apps nowdays.

Let the team know here.

Thanks,
Kevin

[RAM-Studio]

Thanks for links Kevin.

I've sent Feature Request to the system and read/commented on that other topic.

cheers