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AE 7 using boot camp
Anybody got some real life experience running AE7 Windows using boot camp on an intel Mac yet?
Thanks
Solie
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7 Replies
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CNET has some photoshop results already. Given the diversity and ingenuity of people on this site it is not unreasonable to think that someone is already trying it out. Once I get a MBP I will run some tests and post them.
Solie
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I just got Windows installed on my Mac Mini last night. I just installed Creative Suite 2. I will install AE7 demo next. Does anyone have a good benchmarking project I could run on it?
Ken Blankenship
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Thanks Ken. Here are some benchmark files from Total Training (they are for v6 but I am sure will work fine with v 6)
https://www.media-motion.tv/aebenchmarks.html
Solie
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OK – so I am letting the geek get the better of me. Just got my macbook, and am doing the bootcamp thing. Will then run our standard AE 7 and Nucleo tests on it.
Stay tuned.
Steve
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Well, my current verdict is that AE7 is shaky at best. When I try to render the Total Training Benchmark, I get a strange error about a previously selected directory. I was able to import one of my old AE6 projects and render. In trying to get around the error on rendering the benchmark, AE started crashing and now won’t open any projects.
Before AE stopped opening my files (crashes as soon as I select Open Project in the File Menu), the application seem snappy and responsive on my Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66 Ghz with 1GB of RAM.
Ken Blankenship
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Thats an error from AE when the project has previously defined render queue items that need Quicktime, and Quicktime is not installed. The AE benchmark project has two items in it – one having been set to use Quicktime. If QT is not present then AE has a fit. (instead of allowing you just select another video format)
Installing QT (a wierd concept since you’re on a mac!) should resolve the problem.
Just testing myself as well on a macbook pro.
Steve
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Well, I had the latest quicktime installed and still got the error. Generating an error on render is one thing; crashing everytime I click on Open Project is a whole other level of instability. Admittedly, I normally use AE 6.0 on my PC. I was using the AE7 trial on the Mac Mini XP install.
Ken Blankenship
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