• Adobe After Effects

  3D and GTX 285

  Posted by Philip Richardson on March 3, 2010 at 7:09 pm

  Hello

  We are compositing a Stereoscopic, CGI heavy promo. We have a lovely Nehalem MacPro running CS4 and I am wondering if i adopt the following path, we can monitor succesfully and more relevantly, if anyone out there is doing the same or has a better idea?

  ~ Nehalem Mac Pro
  ~ After Effects CS4
  ~ NVidia GTX 285
  ~ One output for GUI
  ~ One output fed to ACER GD245HQ 23.6″
  ~ Nvidia 3D Vision Kit and glasses

  How does that sound?

  Thank you for any help

  Phil

  Phil, Pogo Films Ltd ….UK
  Quantel IQ 2K. FCP HD, SD
  5 suites, 2 workstations, cables, chairs and headaches.

  Walter Soyka replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  March 3, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  I don’t think After Effects would be my first choice for compositing in stereo; it can only render one camera at a time.

  Check out Nuke from The Foundry; it supports stereoscopic 3D out of the box.

  Walter Soyka
  Principal & Designer at Keen Live
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
  RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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  Philip Richardson

  March 4, 2010 at 10:15 am

  Hello Walter

  Many thanks for replying to my post.

  My question is really based on the Hardware requirements and if anyone else out there is going down this route. We have obviously seen nuke but our compositor is working in Afetr Effects and happy with it, so i don’t feel we shall shift to Nuke, mid-job.

  I have a feeling i may just have to do this anyway and if i have success, i shall update!

  Thanks
  P

  Phil, Pogo Films Ltd ….UK
  Quantel IQ 2K. FCP HD, SD
  5 suites, 2 workstations, cables, chairs and headaches.
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  Walter Soyka

  March 4, 2010 at 2:41 pm

  [Philip Richardson] “My question is really based on the Hardware requirements and if anyone else out there is going down this route. We have obviously seen nuke but our compositor is working in Afetr Effects and happy with it, so i don’t feel we shall shift to Nuke, mid-job.”

  I’ve done a couple stereo tests with AE, and I found it really cumbersome because the software itself lacks built-in stereo support.

  You might find some more information on the Stereoscopic 3D forum here.

  I’ll also point out a couple threads that helped me:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/268/10

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/268/84

  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/268/145

  Walter Soyka
  Principal & Designer at Keen Live
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
  RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
  Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

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