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Nucleo is available and works great!
I recently downloaded Nucleo after pre-ordering it yesterday and it is working as promised. My tests with the Trapcode benchmark projects are right in line with GridIron’s web site. I had an initial problem activating the plug-in but after a quick email to their tech support Steve Forde personally called me at home to diagnose that I had a bad serial number. He supplied a new one and the problem was solved. Fantastic support!! Make special note of the need to turn off “Show tips at startup” – there is a conflict with it and Nucleo which will actually degrade performance.
Thanks Steve for the excellent support and a superb product. Jim
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hey Jim,
I was looking at nucleo’s site last week and I am really interested in purchasing it very soon. I dont own any plugins from trapcode so I am more interested in “normal” after fx workflow…Was there a truly substantial increase in ram preview speeds? Is it worth the money (I know its not that expensive…but 150 bucks is 150 bucks…)
thanks for any input
cheers
renato
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Renato – so far all I’ve really tested is the Trapcode benchmark projects from the GridIron site so I can’t yet give you much more info. I did run a little test on my last project which was primarily made up of faces and bodies extracted from digital photos and parented together and animated in AE. The faces then had video clips of singing mouths composited on to them. A ten second work area that took 11:35 minutes to render without Nucleo rendered in 9:03 with Nucleo enabled. Not a great big difference but still very noticeable. As always, different projects and effects will give different results. You could download the demo and see how it works for you. Just remember to disable “Show tips at Start-up”.
Good luck, Jim
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Thanks for the quick reply Jim, sounds very interesting indeed…I will follow your suggestion and give the demo a test..
cheers
renato
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I’ve run a few more tests and they just confirm that the speed-up is definitely dependent on the type of project. Using just AE’s radio wave effect for example, Nucleo will accelerate the RAM preview by nearly double on my dual 2GHz G5. Trapcode effects seem to do very well, while the project I mentioned earlier with animated high-res digital photos and composited video only got about a 20-25% speed-up. So far I’m pleased with the results, and as I mentioned their tech support is superb. I’m just a hobbiest, so you pros will have to put Nucleo to your own tests and see what you think.
Jim
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You don’t own any plugins from Trapcode???
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if you lived in brazil and your currency was worth less then half a dolar maybe you would understand why we cant buy everything we wish for..getting enough cash to buy a g5 is already hard enough…
so..nope..I dont..
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