After Effects Rendering REALLLY Slow!?

So, i have a two minute clip, thats taking 3 Hours and 20 mins to download?! Heres some information that may help you help me out... :
Today, everythings just going really slow, i have no idea why. I have cleared my Cache and everything...I don't know what to do anymore.
Installed RAM: 7.82 GB
Current RAM Usage: 5.55 GB
Allowed RAM Usage: 6.32 GB
Process ID
Application Name
Min Needed Memory
Max Usable Memory
Max Allowed Memory
Current Memory
Current Priority
672
After Effects
0.40
7.82
6.32
5.55
1 - High

Y'know, for the past few days you've been crying and moaning about slow render times.
I went back & checked, and do you know how much information you've given to help us help you? Here's the answer: ALMOST NOTHING! And that is despite people asking you over and over again for certain information, and you ignore it! Do you LIKE not getting help?
You know what we know? You're running Win 8 and you have 8 gigs of RAM. You're rendering a 3-minute clip, and it's taking 10 hours. Well, lah-dee-dah. In AE terms, you might just as well have told us you're from Japan and you have red hair.
You want to know what we should know? Here's a list that will get the diagnostic process going:
The PRECISE version of AE you're using, right down to the last decimal place
The PRECISE version of your operating system, right down to the last decimal place
The identities of any third-part video cards
Got any drivers for these cards? What are their PRECISE version numbers?
The horizontal & vertical dimensions of your comps and frame rate
The media container (.mov, .avi, etc.) and codec(s) of the clips you're using
Got audio clips? wav, aiff, or something else?
What kind of still images are in the project? Bitmapped or vector? What are their horizontal & vertical dimensions? Are they RGB or CMYK?
What kind of effects are you trying to use?
Trying to use ray-tracing? You shouldn't.
Trying to use multiprocessing? You shouldn't.
This isn't an all-encompassing list, but it ain't bad. So toss the people here a bone and cough up some information, okay? Give us a fighting chance, and don't make us rely on crystal balls.

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Hi 421321312,
Please refer the following help article from the illustrator point.
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/optimize-performance-illustrator-cs4-cs5.html
Hope this helps,
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Gregory Seattle wrote:
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Gregory Seattle wrote:
From what I hear new iMacs are due out soon with the new Thunderbolt (!) and Sandy Bridge processors/chipsets. Should be a LOT faster then what I have now.
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Hallo and sorry for may bad english!
So,my nightmares with CC continues!
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We are in the process of fixing this. It is my hope (but not a promise) that we'll be able to have a good fix in place for the next update, which we're targeting for September.
In the meantime, here's how you should be able to mitigate the problem:
Make sure that your software is installed on the fastest disk that you have, preferably an SSD. If you don't have an SSD, then at least make sure that your software (applications and OS) are not stored on the same drive from which you're reading footage or to which you're writing output files. And certainly don't run applications with high disk access (like WinZip or anti-virus software that intervenes at every disk access, just for a couple of examples) while you are working with After Effects. (BTW, this is all good advice for high performance even without this bug.)
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I am on the latest version of OSX Mavericks and am using Adobe CC, which is also up to date.
This is occuring on both my MacBook Pro retina (early 2012) and my new Mac Pro (2013).
Specs:
MacBook Pro Retina (2012)
MacBook Pro
Retina, Mid 2012
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Software OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
768GB SSD
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Late 2013
Processor 2.7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5
Memory 64 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB
Software OS X 10.9.1 (13B4116)
1GB SSD
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Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Szalam,
Thank you for the repsonse. I do realize this is a user-to-user forum, however, sometimes Adobe members from Adobe do respond. I was asking kindly for a response, not demanding one, but I do appreciate you pointing out the user-to-user forum envrionment (reminder).
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I do not recall this issue prior to the upgrade to Mavericks, however, I have been on CC since release and cannot recall experiencing this issue and certainly not in AE CS6.
I have 589 items in my folder structure inside of AE.
I do need to troubleshoot this issue outside of this project, you are correct. I will do that once I deliver this project tomorrow. I wanted to get this discussion out to find if others are still experiencing this issue, as was also noted a few months back in the following post:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1252710?tstart=0
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Jason

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> Renders stopping halfway through has usually nothing to do with the output format, so for the time being let's ignore the theoretical hubub about H.264
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Hi There
I have just built my first editing pc.
I want to do Editing in Premiere and AE.
I understand it is best to share the load over 3 drives, and so i have
C: SSD - OS/programs
H: 1 TB HDD - media
F: 500GB EXternal Hard drive - renders
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if anyone could help or give me a simple answer as to what these disk cache and media cache things are in AE that would be amazing
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Thank for for all your help.
So tell me if im now right.
When working in AE, I should:
1.Import media that is on its own drive (in this case H:)
2. Have my disk cache set on the SSD (C:) and maybe put it at a limit of 5-10 gb if I dont want it to take up much room.
3. Not worry about ram previews taking up space as they only occupy my 8gb of ram temporarily, whilst im working in AE.
4. Export/Render to My other drive (F:) when done.
Has my understanding improved?... or am I still being a wally.
Regards

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