Mac Pro 2013 Render Issues

[Matthew Woods]

I’m pretty sure that Element currently only supports one graphics card, so you actually have twice the V-Ram on your older machine (6Gb vs 3Gb). Unfortunately, only Apple stuff seems to support their dual graphics cards well. That is the main reason, we haven’t upgraded to one of the new mac pros. I’ll take an older mac-pro tower, upgraded with a new graphics card, an SSD, and a usb3 card over one of the new mac pros any day. I’ve always been an Apple guy, but I’m not happy with their current “pro” offerings.

-Matt

Check out 9 Slice Scale.
A way to scale graphics while preserving the border and corners.
An FxFactory Plugin for AE, Premiere, Motion and FCP.
https://monadnock.org/9slice/

[Stephen Ondik]

Matt,

I wanted to let you and anyone else with this issue know that lowering the multisampling, as you suggested, fixed the issue. We raised super-sampling to improve the anti-aliasing and it made it thru a night of renders. It’s certainly unfortunate that element does not support dual GPUs, hopefully they’ll update to include this in the future.

Thanks again everyone for your help.