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Does After Effects support GPU - richparry - 2012-11-04
Is it true that After Effects uses only the CPU when rendering video, in other words, it does not take advantage of a GPU?
I know AE uses the GPU for things like 3D and ray tracing, but when it comes to a simple video render, AE uses only the CPU, right?
thanks,
Rich
RE: Does After Effects support GPU - Marcus - 2012-11-04
Hi Rich.
(2012-11-04, 04:29)richparry Wrote: Is it true that After Effects uses only the CPU when rendering video, in other words, it does not take advantage of a GPU?
I know AE uses the GPU for things like 3D and ray tracing, but when it comes to a simple video render, AE uses only the CPU, right?
Short answer: AE does not support GPU-Acceleration (CUDA/OpenCL).
Adobe is improving application performance by several means, only one of which is GPU accelleration. Check Adobe's statement here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3377595
At the end it says: "The term 'Mercury Playback Engine' refers to Premiere Pro. It has nothing to do with After Effects. After Effects CS5 is a 64-bit application, and it has been multithreaded for a long time, so those improvements are there. But After Effects doesn't use CUDA (though a few third-party plug-ins do)."
This also seems to be true for CS 6 and OpenCL.
/Marcus
RE: Does After Effects support GPU - richparry - 2012-11-04
Thank you for the response. I read the informative Adobe article.
I thought I may be missing something in AE but I see I was not. AE benefits from more cores, not a GPU.
thanks,
Rich