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After Effects & Performance. Part 12: The Quadro Conundrum
For many users, the topic of performance comes down to the question of “which component should I buy”, or...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 11: The rise of the GPGPU
The GPU has come a long way from the days when computers could only display monochrome text. Over the...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 10: The birth of the GPU
Introducing the GPU. Over the past ten years the GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, has probably made greater advances...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 9: Cold, hard cache
Does adding more RAM to your computer make it faster? It’s a surprisingly tricky question. Strictly speaking: no. But...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 8: Multiprocessing (kinda sorta)
When is multiprocessing not multiprocessing? When it’s rendering multiple frames simultaneously. In part 8 we’re going to have a...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 7: Introducing AErender
When you install After Effects, Adobe also installs a separate program that can vastly improve productivity. You already have...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 6: Begun, the core wars have…
When we look back over the last 25 years of After Effects’ history, and how its performance has evolved,...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 5: Introducing the CPU
Introducing the CPU – Confusing Products, Unfortunately… At the heart of every modern computer is the CPU – the...
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After Effects & Performance. Part 4: Bottlenecks and busses
Have you ever wished that After Effects was a bit faster? I’m guessing that every After Effects user has...
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After Effects & Performance. Part3: It’s numbers, all the way down
If you’re reading this then you’re probably an After Effects user, and if you’re an After Effects user then...
