After Effects crashing

[r1Ns3]

Sorry if this is the wrong subforum, been here a while but still not sure about the topics of my questions

 

Anyway, I am trying to edit a video in after effects but I am having some difficulty. 

 

1. Previewing takes like 30 seconds to start

2. It crashes randomly when previewing sometimes

3. Trouble making good videos

 

I haven't really tried anything, I am stuck and don't know what to do

 

I have made sure that AE is updated.

 

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

 

And I honestly doubt it's because my pc isn't strong enough:

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[xQubeZx]

Have you updated all your drivers to the latest? Go into the preferences and check so you have assigned a decent amount of cores and ram for AE to use. Also make sure you have the GPU enabled in AE, also in the preferences. Other than that I really don't know what could cause the troubles. 

 

Do you have a lot of other stuff running in the background maybe? 

[.spider.]

You should consult Adobe 

[Evanair]

Is your render engine set to CUDA or is it defaulted to software?

 

As for Qube's suggestion on cores/ram, they have removed that option for mutli-processor encoding in AE CC. so you won't find the Ram per CPU option.  You can up the ram for overall adobe software, however unless the ram was lowered, I couldn't see a reason for it to keep crashing.

[r1Ns3]

18 hours ago, Evanair said:

Is your render engine set to CUDA or is it defaulted to software?

 

As for Qube's suggestion on cores/ram, they have removed that option for mutli-processor encoding in AE CC. so you won't find the Ram per CPU option.  You can up the ram for overall adobe software, however unless the ram was lowered, I couldn't see a reason for it to keep crashing.

The ram is set to around 8Gb... I think that's enough

 

How shall I check if the render egine is set to CUDA or software? Sorry, a bit new to this editing scene

[ALwin]

16 minutes ago, r1Ns3 said:

The ram is set to around 8Gb... I think that's enough

 

How shall I check if the render egine is set to CUDA or software? Sorry, a bit new to this editing scene

Google it.

[r1Ns3]

1 minute ago, ALwin said:

Google it.

ok

[r1Ns3]

18 hours ago, Evanair said:

Is your render engine set to CUDA or is it defaulted to software?

 

As for Qube's suggestion on cores/ram, they have removed that option for mutli-processor encoding in AE CC. so you won't find the Ram per CPU option.  You can up the ram for overall adobe software, however unless the ram was lowered, I couldn't see a reason for it to keep crashing.

Alright, it was on cpu and i changed it to Gpu lets see if there is a difference, will report back soon