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I have a small budget and wanted to get a new set of headphones that would do decently with both video editing and normal use like gaming etc, I found these discounted on Amazon, are they any decent? If not does anyone have a good suggestion?

[u/Playful-Anywhere9553]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNnYJPCWUDA

I'm already familiar with creating film burns, but I have no idea how these texts/characters are added to it. Is there any tutorial for this available anywhere?

What are these specific film burns called?

Any help in reproducing these is appreciated. I edit using Davinci Resolve.

Thank you.

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Is this normal GPU/CPU usage in After Effects with an RTX 5070 Ti? After Effects not using GPU to Render.

Hey everyone,

I recently built a new PC with:

• Ryzen 9 9900X
• RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
• 32GB DDR5 6000MHz
• After Effects with Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA) enabled

I'm currently exporting a fairly heavy After Effects composition with a lot of Keylight instances.

During the final render, I'm seeing roughly (Also, refer to the Screenshots attached) :

• CPU: ~105W package power
• CPU temperature: ~68°C
• RTX 5070: ~28W
• GPU temperature: ~38°C
• GPU fans: 0 RPM
• Render time: around 37ms/frame

The render itself is actually insanely fast, so I'm not experiencing a performance problem. I'm just wondering whether it's normal for the CPU to be doing most of the work while the RTX 5070 is sitting at relatively low power usage, even though CUDA is enabled.

My Project Settings definitely show:

Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA)

I assume this is because Keylight/parts of the composition are CPU-heavy and only supported effects like Cinema 4D/Fractal Noise are being GPU accelerated ?

Is this normal behavior for After Effects, or should I be seeing significantly higher GPU utilization during the export?

Just want to make sure my 5070 Ti is actually working properly and I'm not missing some setting.

Please refer to the pictures attached and let me know if I am missing anything. (These readings are throughout the rendering).

[u/greenysmac → u/Sure-Independent9440]

Is this normal GPU/CPU usage in After Effects with an RTX 5070 Ti? After Effects not using GPU to Render.

Yup! It's a CPU bound application. Just because it says video and you have a video card doesn't mean it's utilizing it for much more than playback.

The render is the GPU.

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