Anyone tried C4D 9.6 on Leopard?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

I would wait if I was you. I haven’t seen reports on v.9.x, but people are getting slow performance with v10.x. Apparently Apple only got the release build of Leopard to developers the week before they shipped, and it had significant changes compared to previous betas.

[Justincredible]

I’d have responded sooner, but I hadn’t tested enough to feel comfortable.

I have been using Leopard on my MBP (2.33 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB) with a Cinema 4D 9.6 and After Effects 7 production workflow since a week after Leopard was released, and haven’t noticed any quirks yet in Cinema. I use a pretty diverse set of tools within Cinema and AE, including HDRI, composite renders, and camera data export from Cinema to After Effects.

Plugins that worked before still work now.

Render speed decrease in Cinebench was there but negligible. (CB 690-700 now… previously scored 700-720)

Update to 10.5.1 has actually sped up everything.

After Effects has given a little grief… I had to reinstall it to solve a problem I was having with RAM Previews taking a bit too long to complete. That’s about it though.

I hope this is helpful. As always, CYA… make a backup that you can easily reload before you upgrade your OS. I made two… One on an external HD before the installation, and then I let the Leopard Installation do an “Archive and Install” that backs up to a “Previous Systems” folder on another Hard Drive.

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