After Effects CS5.5 and Mavericks

[Todd Kopriva]

> When I contacted Adobe in the end of 2013 they told me that my only option is CC.

Please give me the case number for this interaction. I need to know who is giving out false information.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Lucy Slavinsky]

Sorry, I do not save these chats.

[Kevin Camp]

I run both CS4 and CS5 versions of After Effects on Mavericks and haven’t experienced any problems (as Brian mentioned, I’ve noticed some projects with expression seem to render faster).

However, since the old versions are not supported in Mavericks, I would recommend creating a partition on your main drive and duplicating your current OSX to the 2nd partition before upgrading to Mavericks on the 1st partition.

This way, you keep a fully functioning older OSX with all the software that you know works, and can easily reboot to that OS if needed (either using system>startup disk, or holding the option key while booting).

By installing install Mavericks on the 1st partition, whenever you feel confident in Mavericks, you can simply remove the 2nd partition and expand the 1st partition to use the full drive space — note, you can’t expand the 2nd partition to use the full drive space even if you remove the 1st partition, so if you went that route, you’d need to duplicate the Mavericks partition to the 1st partition, then remove the 2nd partition and expand the first.

If all that seems daunting, you can check out YouTube videos that show you how to easily create partitions in OSX (it’s quite easy with the Disk Utility), and using SuperDuper is equally as easy.

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Todd Kopriva]

> I’ve noticed some projects with expression seem to render faster

One thing that often speeds things up is to disable cache markings, since this prevents a tremendous number of unnecessary reevaluations of the cache; just go to the Timeline panel menu and disable Show Cache Indicators.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Lucy Slavinsky]

Kevin, thank you very much! I absolutly should try that.

[Kevin Camp]

[Todd Kopriva] “One thing that often speeds things up is to disable cache markings, since this prevents a tremendous number of unnecessary reevaluations of the cache;”

great tip, i’m surprised i haven’t heard of that before.

thanks Todd

Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

[Jp Pelc]

Thanks for the tip Todd! Out of curiosity, what is the purpose of showing cache indicators? When might it benefit me to have them shown?

[Todd Kopriva]

The cache indicators give you a visual indication of which frames are already in the cache, which can be useful when you want to get a rough idea of how much longer a RAM preview is going to take to render, etc.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Lucy Slavinsky]

Kevin, quick question – while creating a second partition, what would be the best practice to share the space? 50%/50%? I have 1TB on my start up disc. The main reason for upgrading to Mavericks, is FCPX new version, which doesn’t work with old OS.
Thank you very much!

[Hope Holmesby]

Hi Lucy…
This is off topic, but there are rarely any ladys on this forum, so I thot I would say Hi. I tried to find a way to contact you not thru this thread, but could not.
Just wondering what kinds of things you do w AfterEffects? I realize i dont have any contact info here either…
Warmly,
Hope

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