help for real-time hardware card for aobe after effects(if it does)

[Steve Roberts]

There isn’t one any more.

There used to be a product line called Ice, but it became obsolete when CPUs became faster than the accelerator.

1. just get the fastest dual-processor computer you can
2. Render a still sequence on that computer using multiple instances of AE with the “multi-machine” preset. For more info, search the COW for “instancxes”.

Steve

[Steve Roberts]

Er … that’s “instances”.

S.

[Michael Munkittrick]

The closest thing to hardware assisted real-time is the new Gelato line from nVidia. It is capable of near real-time 3D layers, but it will not help with plugin rendering times. If you are doing a layer-heavy comp with a lot of text and layer motion then Gelato is a very, very fast alternative that might be just what you need.

Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
Evolve Media Solutions

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[Gary Taylor]

Hi Michael,
Doesn’t Gelato only run on Redhat Linux right now? From what I understand Gelato is it’s own renderer and the only way it would work with After Effects is through a plugin architecture. Do you know of such a plug-in in the works for the unreleased WinXP version of Gelato? That would very cool to see although I much rather have Adobe add GPGPU features to the next version of After Effects.
Gary