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AE Accelerator Card?
I am having a hard time using high res photos in a Comp. The RAM preview is just not doing it nearly as fast as my creativity will allow (for lack of better termology). Can someone recommend an accelorator card for AE. I’ve read that Blackmagic and AJA support AE, but will it have a noticeable difference in render time or preview time?
In the need for some speed.
Currently working with G5 dual 2.0 with 1G of RAM. I have another machine with FCP 5 w/ Blackmagic Decklink SP but this machine does not have AE installed on it. Will that card help or there another one that you recommend.
Thanks in advance,
Colin Williams
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Blackmagic and AJA are not accelerator cards: they are input/output cards that allow you to get stuff into and out of your computer to/from tape.
There are no accelerator cards for AE on the market. There was a product line a number of years ago, but they became obsolete when CPU speeds became faster than the accelerators.
So … you’re stuck. Try using lo-res proxies until it’s time to render.
Steve
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I understand that the i/o cards are strictly that, but they tout how you can RAM preview in real-time. Do they mean just as an output signal from the card to a monitor such as component, sdi etc.?
I guess I was misled by that feature declaration.
Are you talking about the ICE card by Media 100?
Colin
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Hm … I’ve never seen a claim like that. Maybe they mean that after you make a RAM preview, it plays at the proper frame rate …? It sounds misleading to me, but I never believe any “real-time” claims anymore. 🙂
Yep, they mean the signal is sent to a monitor and/or deck. They also mean that with an NLE such as FCP, certain effects or transitions are processed without rendering because they’re encoded to the card’s codec through hardware on the card. However, because AE is so flexible with almost infinite layers and effect combinations, nobody can make that real-time claim with AE unless they write their own effects for AE, and if the AE comp only uses those specific effects. That’s what ICE did, but they’re gone, as you know.
Yep, I meant the ICE cards.
Sorry I couldn’t solve your problem,
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Definitely get more RAM. At least 2 GB. The more AE can do in RAM, the less it has to write to the drive, the faster the process will be. Also, use low res proxys until final render. Make the source images smaller if there is too much resolution.
– Adam
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Considering that I’m going to be working with these incredibly high res scans, I guess I could also reduce the resolution all together depending on how close I zoom in the camera. And I plan on panning across as well.
I rotoscoped out foreground elements of the scanned paintings and cloned in the backgound and am trying to create a 2.5D travel space. But just importing these images into AE is extremly taxing on my box.
I’m just frustrated. As expansive as AE can be, there should be a way to accelerate it somehow. Programmers….listen up!
Cheers,
Colin
https://www.pensivecrow.com -
Dude, get another gig of ram.
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