<p>So after quite some time it turns out ame is pretty useless on using as much comp resources as you have. I did how ever find a really solid solution. Rendergarden is a third party tool that splits the output render into chunks and renders them all in parallel. I went from using no more than 3% cpu to render garden using as much as I asked ie 96%.</p>
<p>This axes render times by a factor I genuinely cannot believe. In real terms it cut a 3h 52min render into a 24min job. (16 CORES SMASHES THROUGH RENDERS)</p>
<p>It does cost money but if you are experiencing this issue this 100% removes the media encoder render bottleneck.</p>

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Chris Marshall
<p><strong>System Spec:</strong></p>
<pre><code>16 core 3950x
Nvidia rtx 3080
64gb of ram
1tb nvme
2tb ssd
4tb hdd
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Software</strong></p>
<pre><code>AfterEffects - v17.5.1 (build 47)
MediaEncoder - v14.7 (build 17)
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Problem:</strong></p>
<p>So I'm outputting a fairly complex render at 1080p 30fps and the media encoder is only using 3% of the CPU and 6% of the GPU. I have always had issues with rendering but this new pc I have just bought should be rendering much faster than the old setup but they are basically identical. Can someone explain if there is something I can do to increase the performance or explain why the hell this shit is like this?</p>

<after-effects><encoding><adobe><adobe-media-encoder><rendering>
Adobe Media Encoder (Why is it not using all the available power)
Chris Marshall
# Adobe Media Encoder (Why is it not using all the available power)

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-12-27)

System Spec:
16 core 3950x
Nvidia rtx 3080
64gb of ram
1tb nvme
2tb ssd
4tb hdd

Software
AfterEffects - v17.5.1 (build 47)
MediaEncoder - v14.7 (build 17)

Problem:
So I'm outputting a fairly complex render at 1080p 30fps and the media encoder is only using 3% of the CPU and 6% of the GPU. I have always had issues with rendering but this new pc I have just bought should be rendering much faster than the old setup but they are basically identical. Can someone explain if there is something I can do to increase the performance or explain why the hell this shit is like this?

**Tags:** after-effects, encoding, adobe, adobe-media-encoder, rendering


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2021-03-08. Score: 0

So after quite some time it turns out ame is pretty useless on using as much comp resources as you have. I did how ever find a really solid solution. Rendergarden is a third party tool that splits the output render into chunks and renders them all in parallel. I went from using no more than 3% cpu to render garden using as much as I asked ie 96%.

This axes render times by a factor I genuinely cannot believe. In real terms it cut a 3h 52min render into a 24min job. (16 CORES SMASHES THROUGH RENDERS)

It does cost money but if you are experiencing this issue this 100% removes the media encoder render bottleneck.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: If you think this is a useful answer, you should set the "accepted answer" check mark.  That way the system won't keep asking people to provide a better answer, and people with a similar question will notice that this one has an answer that's marked as useful. and so be more likely to read it.  

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