Choosing a computer

[Vishesh Arora]

Elizabeth

I am working in Cinema 4D Broadcast, After Effects and Premier.

For After Effects I would suggest you to go for more RAM.

For making quick 3D shapes and 3D Texts directly in AE(This would be very helpful in short deadlines as you don’t have to render from a 3D appliation), you could use AE CS6 new Ray-Tracing Feature which would require a good GPU. NVIDIA Quadro 4000 would be a good graphic card but not the best one.

See how the performance increases with a good GPU while using Ray-Tracing :

https://www.nvidia.com/object/after-effects-cs6.html

In a nutshell, Go for more RAM to increase the overall performance.

For Premiere and Cinema 4D, You would get a better option in their respective Forums.

Vishesh Arora
3D and Motion Graphics Artist
Films Rajendra

Blog:
https://digieffects.wordpress.com

2011 3D Demo Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

[Todd Kopriva]

See this page for information about hardware for Premiere Pro and After Effects: https://adobe.ly/pRYOuk

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Elizabeth Solomeina]

This is very helpful!

I just learned that the processors I picked don’t have hyper-threading. Does this matter?

Also, what graphic card would you recommend over the Quadro 4000? (Other than one that costs $2k more?) 🙂

Thank you for you help with this!

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

If you want a laptop/mobile workstation, I would go for a more customizable option. Falcon PC or Origin PC for the most options, or Dell XPS, Alienware or HP.

https://www.falcon-nw.com/

https://www.originpc.com/

https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-15-l521x/fs

https://www.alienware.com/Landings/laptops.aspx

https://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USSMBPublicStore-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewStandardCatalog-Browse?CatalogCategoryID=AW0Q7EN6.xwAAAE3XflZ.WDA

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Elizabeth Solomeina] “I just learned that the processors I picked don’t have hyper-threading. Does this matter?”

It does, and so does processor memory speed (you want to start with E5-1620 at the minimum; better yet – E5-1650).

[Elizabeth Solomeina] “Also, what graphic card would you recommend over the Quadro 4000?”

Nothing on the Quadro side: the only decent one that’s not old tech, is K5000, and it is about $2K. On the GeForce side, it’s GTX-670, 680, and even 660 Ti. None of the big boys (HP, Dell, Lenovo) offer those for their workstations so you’d want someone (an integrator like yours sincerely, or a local technician) to put it in and configure it for you.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA