Thanks for the tip. Yeah maybe 3rd party ram sooner than later is good idea. How do you know if your ram is filled or not? I presumed for normal C4D rendering ram wasn't a massive deal, but I'd love to be educated differently! And more ram will definitely help After Effects from what I've read.
Well if I render something in after effects I can watch the ram filling up in activity monitor within seconds. Ok, it doesnt use up ALL memory, but 54 gb of my 64 easily during a not too wild render.
Adobe always recommended to allocate about 4-5 gb of ram per core in after effects back in the day when you still were able to set that manually (CC14), so I assume they still do something similar internaly. Not sure about C4d, but would be surprised if it was LESS hungry