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...
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...
Pan & Scan Photos in Motion
This week on MacBreak Studio, I show you how you can animate a camera to dolly and pan over...
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...
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,...
Faking 3D in After Effects
3D is ever present in the motion graphics world. It’s also hard to learn and, occasionally, overkill. That’s where...
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...
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...
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...
After Effects & Performance. Part 2: What After Effects actually does
When discussing the history of After Effects and performance, there’s one single, critical, all encompassing factor that we have...
