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Render time is extremely excessive
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[EricBowen] “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.”
So since I already have the aforementioned 16 gig RAM MBP for editing, you’d suggest going with the iMac as a renderer though?
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[Ryan Hannebaum] “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.”
If you’re using After Effects CC, you can select the effect and Edit > Copy with Property Links, then paste it wherever you need, however many times you want.
If you’re using a previous version, you can do this yourself with a little pickwhipping, or you can use pt_EffectSearch [link].
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Sadly, I’m using CS6, and don’t really feel like pick-whipping nearly a hundred layers. 😉 Thanks though!
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[Ryan Hannebaum] “Sadly, I’m using CS6, and don’t really feel like pick-whipping nearly a hundred layers. 😉 Thanks though!”
You only have to do it once, then you can copy and paste the effect that has the expressions.
Otherwise, pt_EffectSearch is for you.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Dave LaRonde] “I’d trick the iMac out with as much memory as possible and do my Ae work on it. It’ll be a darned sight better than a laptop. Any laptop.”
…But not portable, which would be a pretty big drawback to me in my line of work.
I’ll have to consider it an option though at this rate, thanks!
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If Money is the primary deciding factor and I want the best option for the money spent then yes the Imac would be the choice in the Mac lineup. If you want the best performance with the budget you have and has to be a Mac then the 6 or 8 nMpro will give the best performance but at a much higher price for the performance gained.
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[Ryan Hannebaum] “…But not portable, which would be a pretty big drawback to me in my line of work.
I’ll have to consider it an option though at this rate, thanks!”
Honestly 75% of the time I use my laptop as a client to VNC into my workstation rather than actually working on the laptop.
Someday in the not-to-distant future I imagine I’ll be doing it with a tablet instead 🙂
Why aren’t PCs an option for you? After 20 years on the Mac I don’t regret jumping ship to my HP workstation at all.
Darby Edelen
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[Darby Edelen] “Why aren’t PCs an option for you?”
My department is exclusively Mac, so I don’t have a say. Though even if I did have a say, I’d probably stick with Mac. Video editing isn’t the only thing I do for my job, and after 14 years on PCs, I’ve never looked back after switching to Mac 6 years ago. 🙂
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Just understand there is a performance loss with applications such as AE with the options Mac has right now. That translates into paying more for less.
Eric-ADK
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[EricBowen] “Just understand there is a performance loss with applications such as AE with the options Mac has right now. That translates into paying more for less.”
I understand, but I don’t hold the purse strings or sign the deals with our hardware partners, so that’s really a moot point for me. And again, AE is only a fraction of what I do in my current role. And I personally find the other Adobe applications run much smoother on Mac than they do on PC, but I don’t have technical specs to back that up.
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