CPU or RAM After Effects

[Triventular]

does after effects favor more ram or a better cpu? i have a core2quad q9450 and i need to make a 3min video in after effects for a school project. i just wanna know if it is still feasible to render videos in h.264 with my cpu.. and i have 8gb of ram just in case someone asks

[SirWendall]

2 minutes ago, Triventular said:

does after effects favor more ram or a better cpu? i have a core2quad q9450 and i need to make a 3min video in after effects for a school project. i just wanna know if it is still feasible to render videos in h.264 with my cpu.. and i have 8gb of ram just in case someone asks

I"d say it'd use RAM the most to encode the video

[Triventular]

3 minutes ago, GamerMan said:

I"d say it'd use RAM the most to encode the video

oh, so i can just get by with my processor? cuz my prof is asking us to make a video that requires the use of many effect presets and i just got curious on how AE uses resources

[Ryujin2003]

44 minutes ago, Triventular said:

does after effects favor more ram or a better cpu? i have a core2quad q9450 and i need to make a 3min video in after effects for a school project. i just wanna know if it is still feasible to render videos in h.264 with my cpu.. and i have 8gb of ram just in case someone asks

Looking at Adobe forums from 2008-ish, your processor is recommended for AE CS3. It's CPU intensive, and they say performs well with quad core CPU's. So you did be fine. Considering the age of the CPU and the many upgrades of AE, you may find yourself having a little bit of a wait on rendering, but I think you'd be fine. I would definitely suggest making sure you have enough RAM. 8 GB might be ideal depending on the file size,  but also take into consideration I don't do any of that stuff,so I don't have the experience that others might have.

 

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/932805

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-After-Effects-CC-2015-Multi-Core-Performance-714/