After Effects Acceleration Cards

[Steve Roberts]

Nope, sorry.

There used to be ICE cards available, but those were rendered obsolete with the G4, if I recall correctly. Anyway, those who have one can’t give it away now. Paperweight.

Steve

[Richard]

I forgot to mention… I’m on a PC.
Yeah we use to have ICE acceleration cards too. And it too is now a paperweight.

[Richard]

I forgot to mention… I’m on a PC.
Yeah we use to have ICE acceleration cards too. And it too is now a paperweight.

[Mylenium]

Well, funny how such threads pop up every now and then. But seriously, don’t you think just buying another no-name dirt cheap PC as a render hog would be easier (except of course for setting up the network render client)? I always found/ find those acceleration boards quite overpriced for what little they offer (even in the 3D world). The most limiting factor perhaps is that in order to use them you would always have to use their dedicated plugins/ filters/ shaders, which is quite an imposition on creative freedom, methinks.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Steve Roberts]

Indeed.

And if you just have one dual-proc box, you can set up a render using the multi-machine preset in the queue, then launch another instance of AE, open the project again, and start both renders. You’ll probably get close to 100% usage on both processors.

Then you reimport the stills that you’ve just rendered (sorry, you can’t directly make movie files this way) and convert to a quicktime movie or whatever, pretty quickly.

Steve