Advice on a Video Card

[Darby Edelen]

When it comes to graphics cards and AE I can only say this: the cheaper the better. Spend your money elsewhere (more HD space perhaps?), it’ll help you more.

That isn’t the case with 3D applications, so you may need to balance the above sentiment with your 3D needs.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Carlos Bringas]

Ty for the response.

So, there is not much help for a good video card ?

What makes the preview goes faster ? When i use some effects like Shatter its a pain in da butt. I want that to go away, so, what do u guys recommend ?

[Darby Edelen]

[Carlos Bringas] “What makes the preview goes faster ? When i use some effects like Shatter its a pain in da butt. I want that to go away, so, what do u guys recommend ?”

In CS3, or with Nucleo Pro, you can take advantage of multiple processors. The RAM available to your system will be split among several instances of AE’s rendering engine (up to the number of processing cores in your computer).

On my computer at work, for example, I use 3 cores for multiprocessing, with 1.5GB of RAM available to each. The result is not quite a three-fold increase in render speed, but it’s close.

Of note is that your OS (and the instances of AE) will not be able to use more than 3GB of RAM total unless it is 64-bit (i.e. XP 64 or Mac OS X).

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Lyrad Boots]

RAM RAM RAM & More RAM to preview faster..

😉

[Carlos Bringas]

Thx Darby and Lyrad, so, as i understand is better for me if i use my Dual Core 2 Quad on 8 GB of ram and 64 bit OS ??

I can do that.. sacrifice the price of video card to buy more ram.

So that better ?

[Darby Edelen]

[Carlos Bringas] “So that better ?”

Yes =)

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA