AE CC on Macbook Pro Retina

[Todd Kopriva]

I’d think that 16GB would be plenty of RAM for a mobile computer that you’re not using for heavy final renders, etc.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Brian Cooney]

thanks Todd

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[Ridley Walker]

While CUDA is supported on GT 650M in the Macbook Pro Retina, it just meets the minimum requirements for the Ray-traced 3D Renderer.

After Effects sometimes complains that it cannot use the GPU for Ray-tracing. This appears to occur when other applications have used some of the GPU’s memory – quitting those apps (even a browser) and relaunching After Effects solves the problem for me.

I’ve read that since the last update in AE CC that this still an issue.

Other than that, as a mobile machine the MBPr is great.

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Brian Cooney] “Is there CUDA and open GL support on the new machines?”

Only the top-shelf 15″ $2.6K model seems to have the discrete graphics chip (GT-750). The rest – Intel Iris (Pro) graphics, which is unlikely to do hardware GPU acceleration despite its hardware OpenCL support: too weak.

Very fast SSDs employed in these will probably help keep the system responsive even when you hit the memory ceiling, so I agree with Todd, 16GB should work, and is a better choice than 32GB on older models.

The new Mavericks memory compression may help too – wonder if anyone has any real world results.

[Brian Cooney]

thanks.. so CUDA and Mercury playback engine should be just fine?

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[Brian Cooney]

thanks! just saw this.. 🙂

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[Todd Kopriva]

> While CUDA is supported on GT 650M in the Macbook Pro Retina, it just meets the minimum requirements for the Ray-traced 3D Renderer.

After Effects sometimes complains that it cannot use the GPU for Ray-tracing. This appears to occur when other applications have used some of the GPU’s memory – quitting those apps (even a browser) and relaunching After Effects solves the problem for me.

I’ve read that since the last update in AE CC that this still an issue.

We’ve got a new version of the OptiX library from Nvidia and some other changes on our end that will make this a lot better. We’re hoping to have a new After Effects CC (12.2) update out next month with these improvements, as well as a new After Effects CS6 (11.0.4) update with the same improvements.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Brian Cooney] “so CUDA and Mercury playback engine should be just fine?”

Yes, lot of people are using GT-750 with good results in AE in Pr.

[Brian Cooney]

cool… now I’ve got to see how to get Mountain Lion on a new one.. I don’t think Video Copilot, Magic Bullet Trapcode and looks are ready yet.. no?

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[Ridley Walker]

[Todd Kopriva] ” We’re hoping to have a new After Effects CC (12.2) update out next month with these improvements, as well as a new After Effects CS6 (11.0.4) update with the same improvements.”

That’s great news Todd. Thanks for supporting the older software.