After Effects Workstation PC
Adobe After Effects is a
powerful VFX package, usually used in conjunction with Adobe Premiere Pro.
While After Effects has some basic video editing abilities it works best in
conjunction with a full nonlinear editing package.
Adobe had designed Premiere
and After Effects to work together seamlessly, so most workstations meant for
After Effects are inevitably also going to run Premiere. Here are some hardware
recommendations to help you choose the best system for your needs.
Titan's Customizable After Effects Workstation Computers
CPU Recommendations for After
Effects
With an increased focus on GPU
acceleration since around the mid-2010s, Adobe After Effects doesn’t benefit
that much from having extreme core counts as it might have in the past. Which
means it's important to find a CPU that balances core count and per-core
performance. After Effects can make good use of, for example, 16-core
single-die processors at the high-end. However, actual performance from a CPU
with fewer of those cores running at a higher clock rate could be faster in
practice. AMD’s Ryzen CPUs have been putting in a good show with both Premiere
and After Effects, since they offer more cores per-dollar with per-core
performance on-par with Intel CPUs in matching price ranges.
GPU Recommendations for After
Effects
After Effects benefits from
multiple GPU-accelerated features, but overall it’s still a very CPU-centric
piece of software. Mid-range GPUs with a healthy amount of VRAM will be just
fine in general. Workstation-class GPUs such as the Nvidia Quadro range are not
absolutely necessary and cheaper mid-range consumer GPUs should be fine unless
you absolutely must have that mission-critical uptime and vendor support. The
RTX 3060 series of cards are a great choice, but older mid-range cards from
Nvidia are also perfectly acceptable. If you want to make use of the
GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer, you do need to choose a GPU from
Adobe’s certified list.
RAM Recommendations for After
Effects
The exact RAM requirements for
After Effects depends on the nature of your specific projects. Adobe recommends
16GB of RAM, but as resolution and framerate scale up that number will
increase. If you have a fast SSD and don’t mind waiting for the next section of
your video to load, then you can get away with less RAM. Discuss your specific
resolution and framerate requirements with us and we’ll give you a recommended
RAM allocation.
Storage Recommendations for
After Effects
When it comes to storage for
video editing and VFX, we’re confident in saying that a fast NVME SSD is an
absolute requirement. We’d also recommend that you have a separate NVME SSD for
your operating system and applications and then a second NVME drive to act as a
cache or scratch drive. This will reduce the amount of SSD write wear on your
primary drive and eliminate access contention by splitting data transfers over
two different drives.
For truly a high-performance
solution, you may want to consider a RAID 0 SSD configuration for the media
cache drive. Speak to us about this option and if your use case will benefit
from it.
For more information on this
application please visit their website at:
https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html
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