As Walter says, the headless version of After Effects that is serving AME over Dynamic Link does not use the GPU or multiple background rendering processes. I recommend the workflow that Walter suggested: rendering a losslessly encoded master file out of After Effects and directing that file to a watch folder to be picked up for transcoding to delivery formats by AME.

On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Walter Soyka <walter@keenlive.com> wrote:

AME does not exploit Ae's multiprocessing feature. This explains the difference in render times that you are seeing.

You cannot import an .epr into Ae. For best performance, I usually render a lossless intermediate out of Ae (with multiprocessing on) and encode with AME via watch folders.

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