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Maximizing AE System
Hey All,
We’re just about done “pimping” out our AE/Gfx station, and wanted to see if there is anything else we are missing out on? Hidden tips or tricks that we may have overlooked? We’re using a MacPro 3.0GHz (quad) – juiced it up with 16GB of ram, running all the apps on 10k drives, and rendering/reading from a 4 drive esata raid0 array.
I guess for daily work, we typically have moderately complex 3d AE projects, and starting to get into doing more Maya 3D work these days. What I’m wondering if there’s anything else we can invest in to help keep productivity at a maximum. I’m well aware of the 3GB memory max for AE now, but is there anything else that can speed up render times to take full advantage of the excess ram? What about plugins like Nucleo, would the extra RAM help if we were to purchase something like that?
Any thoughts or things you think we’re missing would be great!
Thanks!
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cs3 can use multiple processors and up to 3gb per processor for rendering and previews. so you should get good use of your extra ram if you enable multiprocessing in the ae preferences.
nucleo pro will add nice extras like background rendering and background ram preview rendering, and, from what i hear, it is more stable and less flakey than ae’s multiprocessing. i have heard that there was a problem with something being broken with nucleo pro and the leopard os (look into that, i can’t remember what the issue was, hopefully someone will chime in).
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
I’m starting to go in and tweak the memory cache stuff now, it’s weird that there isn’t something that “automagically” uses your system to it’s full potential, right? I’ll have to look more into nucleo, I think they offer a free demo to see how it all works.
Thanks for the input, this is why I turn to the cow so often!
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in addition to the demo, you might check out aharon rabinowitz’s video review of it. it was an earlier version, pre-cs3, but he shows how background ram previewing and background rendering works.
also, with 16gb of ram available, you probably won’t need to do much ram cache tweaking… you might want to enable disk caching though.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
We still use AE7 Pro with the standard version of Nucleo on a mixture of Tiger & Leopard machines – seems to work a treat. One of our machines is the new(ish) 3.2 octocore with 8GB RAM and that thing screams through renders and previews. That system with 16-32GB RAM would be insane. Not sure if NP2 is unstable with Leopard though…we are thingking of getting it to try out.
AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.0.1 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.9
30″ ACD / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe RAID
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Production Studio CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
Win XP Pro 32 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB/80GB/600GB RAID-0
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