HOW TO USE AE7 WITH INTEL MACS

[Abondanzieri]

hell

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

Thanks for your post. I’m a little confused… what are the render times if you set the secret pref to 1? I gather from your finished renders that you don’t experience crashes with your memory set to 30 or 40%? And have you tried lower memory settings like 10% or 20%? Are you watching Activity Monitor to see what’s going on while you render?

Thanks,
Graham Jones.

[Fabrobula]

i have a dual3 macpro with 3gb ram – ae7 craps out on every render – i’ve tweaked the memory settings to no avail – looking at activity monitor, other rosetta aps and auto-processes running are: snapz pro, msoft word, msoft au daemon, msoft database daemon – have you heard of any conflicts with those?

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

make sure you also follow the advice at the top of the thread regarding looking for offending Quicktime components, workspaces, permissions, corrupted prefs, etc. Then I would do a test where you force quit all PowerPC processes, set your AE memory settings to 15%, and see if you still get the crashes.

At that point, I would check to see what filters you are using… in AE 6.5 I had nothing but crashes with the Ripple filter, for example. It might be one particular filter (or combination) that is causing crashes.

Please report back on what you find.

Hope this helps,
Graham Jones.

[Fabrobula]

i tried it without any of my plug-ins, got the same problem. but then I installed the 7.0.1 update, (keeping my memory just below 50% usage), and magically, I’ve done 3 renders smoothly without it freezing! I hope I didn’t just jinx myself. thanks

[Mike Procunier]

THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU.
I’ve been pulling my hair out for the past month since “upgrading” to a MacPro.
So for your solution seems to have eliminated my memory related crashes.

[Abondanzieri]

hey, what happened ? what is the success ? does any body have render without a problem on xeon 3ghz ? when leopard comes out ? when after effects cs3 comes out ? how long am i going to wait with this slow 3ghz 6gig ram macpro ..

thanks.

[Dale Jackson]

I’m going to try to render out my scene which uses a lot of CC force motion blur. At the moment my renders crash every single time. I have a brand spanking new MacPro Intel 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon with 4GB RAM. I had always been able to render complex scenes on my PC which is a Dual Xeon 3Ghz w/ 2GB RAM.

I’ll let ya know if this solution works… 🙂

(crossing fingers)

~DJ

[Dale Jackson]

Hmmmm…. 🙁 no luck, I’m still getting booted out of AE when rendering. I did all the things mentioned in the beginning. I guess I’ll wait till AE8 comes out.

I thought these links would also be useful:

https://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2297

&

http://www.adobe.com/products/pdfs/intelmacsupport.pdf

~DJ

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

Have you read the resources thoroughly? It’s not a guaranteed solution, and there may still be some factors (like a certain filter that may cause crashes on Intel Macs despite the workarounds). However, I am happily using a Quad 2.66 Mac Pro with 3GB RAM for production use of AE 7. So far, my Intel-native apps are crashing far more than AE. I wouldn’t characterize it as slow… it is faster than the Dual G5/2.5 with 4.5 GB RAM that I use at my main client’s suite.

I would suggest you read all of the resources mentioned here very thoroughly, and take the time to do some testing. And if you’re really dissatisfied with your Mac Pro 3.0 I’d gladly take it off your hands… 😉

Hope this helps,
Graham Jones.