12 core, 8 core, 4 core oh my!

[Blake Porter]

“The other thing is the graphic card, unfortunately Apple is on the ATI side and Adobe and Black Magic are on the NVidia side. If Color was not in your workflow I would probably get a high end NVidia card.”

Interesting
Currently Color is not in my work flow.
If Adobe is on the NVidia side… Which side is After Effects? Or Lightwave (if you happen to know)

[Walter Soyka]

[Blake Porter] “If Adobe is on the NVidia side… Which side is After Effects?”

The After Effects renderer runs on the CPU, not the GPU. Your graphics card makes no difference to AE (with the notable exception of a few plugins, like Magic Bullet, Colorista II, Knoll Light Factory, Optical Flares, and the entire FxFactory suite).

That said, Adobe publishes After Effects, so IF future versions render on the GPU, my guess is that they’d be CUDA-accelerated and benefit from NVIDIA.

[Blake Porter] “Or Lightwave”

All the big 3D applications use CPU renderers, too. The GPU typically accelerates the viewport with OpenGL, and this is where the high-end cards like the NVIDIA Quadro or ATI FirePro line really shine. I’m not a Lightwave user, though, so I’m not sure if there’s a preferred system.

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[Nick Price]

hi blake,
i used to use ON2 for FLVs, but have since moved to creating H264s using compressor. Its way way quicker than ON2 when you have qmaster using all your cores. Then once its done change the .mov to .flv and you have a flash. Just as good quality in a fraction of the time

cheers
nick

[Blake Porter]

Nick Price-i used to use ON2 for FLVs, but have since moved to creating H264s using compressor. Its way way quicker than ON2 when you have qmaster using all your cores. Then once its done change the .mov to .flv and you have a flash. Just as good quality in a fraction of the time

Interesting, but don’t the H264’s end-up being much bigger files?

[Dennis Radeke]

“If Adobe is on the NVidia side… Which side is After Effects? Or Lightwave (if you happen to know)”

After Effects is more general in it’s GPU usage than Premiere Pro which is specific to nvidia and the CUDA cores. After Effects is using OpenGL to accelerate previews in certain cases and you can find the settings in the preferences panel.

After Effects + Photoshop = either nvidia or ATI
Premiere Pro = nvidia for more radical hardware GPU acceleration

[Nick Price]

not really, in fact with the right bit rate i have found they are better quality and smaller. Just needs a bit of testing
n