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Render time is extremely excessive
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[EricBowen] “AE is really best on a PC at this point”
What?! I refuse to acknowledge that Windows is better at anything in the creative world at this point in time. 🙂
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Unfortunately Windows and OSX have the same performance. So hardware decides the performance differences and those 2 GPU’s make 0 performance gain with AE where as 2 CPU’s mean a significant performance difference. Cant get 2 CPU’s on the nMPro so PC has the advantage. There is nothing OSX brings to the table that gives it any advantage to the Creative Market.
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[Dave LaRonde] “SEVENTEEN LIGHT LAYERS. Yipes!”
You’re right. 🙂 But I now only have 4 persistent light layers with one extra one that is periodically turned on. I eliminated the rest, either altogether or by replacing with fuzzy white solids to mimic the effect.
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Eric, what about the following (understanding a PC is not an option for my company)?
3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2X4GB
512GB Flash Storage
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5
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That IMac would handle the rendering better than the MBP and the cooling would hold up better. Render times are still going to be over twice as long as they would be on a 8 Core. Just keep that in mind when planning deadlines. That same project I spoke of that takes 1.5 hours on a Dual 12 Core Xeon system takes well over 4 to 5 hours on a Quad Desktop and it’s only a min long comp.
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[Walter Soyka] “If you want to apply an effect to the layer, you cannot also collapse transformations without breaking the render order.”
So if I wanted to duplicate a nested comp to apply a Fast Blur for a glow effect, how would I do that without breaking the 3D depth appearance? I’m struggling with it. I can either get the effect right but lose 3D depth, or not get the effect to mimic correctly…
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[EricBowen] “That IMac would handle the rendering better than the MBP and the cooling would hold up better. Render times are still going to be over twice as long as they would be on a 8 Core. Just keep that in mind when planning deadlines. That same project I spoke of that takes 1.5 hours on a Dual 12 Core Xeon system takes well over 4 to 5 hours on a Quad Desktop and it’s only a min long comp.”
OK….of the two spec sets I presented you, which would you recommend if you were forced to?
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[Ryan Hannebaum] “So if I wanted to duplicate a nested comp to apply a Fast Blur for a glow effect, how would I do that without breaking the 3D depth appearance? I’m struggling with it. I can either get the effect right but lose 3D depth, or not get the effect to mimic correctly…”
Apply Fast Blur to each layer within the precomp individually, not to the precomp layer itself.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “Apply Fast Blur to each layer within the precomp individually, not to the precomp layer itself.”
Nasty, but OK. 🙂 On a related note then, is there a quick way to edit the properties of an effect for multiple layers at once? Selecting them all and then editing the property for one of the selected layers is not propagating to the other selected layers.
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The Imac is better money spent because your not wasting money on what is not being used if this is primarily AE render. If you will edit on the system as well then the nMPro is the best performing choice and what I would get if I had to get a Mac and needed the most performance headroom for workflow and ram preview.
Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com
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