• Adobe After Effects

  iMac 2012 for Motion Graphics

  Posted by Estelle Caswell on December 1, 2012 at 4:54 am

  Hello,
  I’m looking to purchase the new iMac and am currently working in motion graphics/video editing. I would need this primarily to work from outside of the office. When it comes to understanding graphics card/processing capabilities, I’m in the dark.

  Could you help me better understand the possible performance issues of the computer?

  I would be running After Effects / FCP 7 / possibly C4D

  Here are specs for the iMac I would be getting.

  27″ iMac
  3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
  1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA Drive
  NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5

  Is this sufficient to run the programs I mentioned? I did not get the fusion drive for monetary reasons…would it be worth the investment after all of this?

  Gates Bradley replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Gates Bradley

  December 18, 2012 at 12:31 am

  Likewise I’m interested in knowing the same. Though I would be maxing out my RAM. I realize Apple is really fallen out of favor when it comes to professional machines, but I love the stability and workflow of OSX. I’m really just looking for something that will allow me to work in AE without frames taking 1 sec or more to calculate, slowing me down tremendously.

  I thought i had that problem solved with my OpenCL/Mercury compatible Mid-2011 17″ Macbook Pro, but working on it still feels much the same as things always have for the past 6 or so years (even with 16GB RAM), which is extremely frustrating (maybe I just over-estimated the power of even a high-end laptop for graphics work).

  Anyway, deciding between new iMac and hackintosh. Whichever route I went would cost roughly the same (because I’d need a 2nd monitor). It seems like performance vs. stability. Just want to know if I can have my stability (iMac) and still expect a good level of professional performance.

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