After Effects Preferences Settings

Hello Everyone.
I was a watching a video Tutorial, and the Instructor advised in such a settings.
would you please look at my Screen-Shots from my preferences settings and let me know if it is OK.
NOTE: My computer has 16 Gig of Ram
Thank You Very Much.

You may wanna lower your RAM allotted per background CPU. As you see your not gonna be using any multiprocessing for multi frame rendering which may or may not be a better set up. It's wise to try different set ups to see what works best. Theres a "rule of thumb" here Please try recommended memory settings for After Effects CS5 and give feedback. | After Effects region of interest.

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1. Speed: Simply applying a Render Settings preset is much faster than manually setting motion blur, frame blending, work area, etc.
2. Reliability: Not being able to apply a Render Settings preset at the time of render is a recipe for missing a crucial setting buried in a comp, then having to redo a render and wasting time.
3. Features: As noted above, there is no way to approximate Render Queue's ability to change resolutions at render, which results in a lot of wasted time when that feature is needed.
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2. Work Area/Entire Composition toggle
3. Field Rendering (wait, does this mean AME can't currently render to fields?)
4. And PRESET ability these settings, so I'm not doing them manually every time.
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My after effects is extremely slow and i want to use an external harddrive to increase the speed temporarily until i can afford to change the internal hard drive. i also have other video production software like Cinema 4D, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Cheetah 3D, etc.
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I have a few questions regarding quicktime and after effects.
I mostly render using quicktime and photo-jpeg as the compressor.But in the timelapse I shot, it is not giving me precise colors and the final movie is low on contrast.
I tried animation codec, awesome but file size too large.I am rendering for stock footage where 1GB is maximum file size limit.
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3 - I saw many recommending DNxHD codec.I downloaded it.What next?Is it a quicktime compressor, i.e. to be used with quicktime as we use h.264, animation and photo-jpeg?
4 - How do I add DNxHD codec to After Effects for use in renders?
5 - Could you recommend the best lossless quicktime compressor which gives not so big file size as animation does?
Currently I see 11 compressors in format options under quicktime.Are there more?I have the latest k-lite codec pack installed if that matters.
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Would be greatful if you can explain, it will help me get clear on this.
Thank you.And sorry if it is a very basic question.

Hi, thanks for the replies.
It is a timelapse footage and not animation file.I meant animation codec under quicktime format gives me the best results.I tried h.264 and photo-jpeg, but the final video looks flat and low on contrast.I have done some color grading and only animation and png renders it correctly.
But the problem is that the file size is pretty huge.I also see banding in photo-jpeg and h.264 renders.
I want to upload the timelapse to pond5 for sale.But photo-jpeg just gives me flat colors and flat contrast.
Can you suggest a compression that maintains colors plus gives a size under 1GB?
Photo-Jpeg render frame:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42878955/1%20Photo%20-%20Jpeg.JPG
Animation render frame:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42878955/2%20Animation.JPG
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