[Ben Piercey]

We have noticed that loading projects that contain EPS/.ai file can take much longer than expected. We assume that indeed AE is rasterizing those images.

If there’s a way to get around it we’d love to hear about it because this can be a nasty performance hit in some cases.

Ben
GridIron Software

[Ben Piercey]

We tried to get benchmark data from a broad range of available technology. Unfortunately, we simply didn’t have that particular chip in house when we ran the benchmarks. We plan to extend the benchmark set in the near future to include more hardware and more plugins. We’ll be sure to try out the X2 and post the results.

Ben Piercey
GridIron Software

[Ben Piercey]

I’d argue that if you’re not using Nucleo, you’re not getting a real indication of the what the machine is capable of. In many cases you will exercise only 1 cpu.

Ben Piercey
GridIron Software

[Ben Piercey]

During the development of Nucleo we found that controlling memory use to be a very tricky subject. Purging would work great in some situations but really kill performance in others. We’re very carfefull about how we purge, we found it best to calculate the proper max memory limit percentage in the AE memory preferences and let AE take care of flushing frames from memory.

:shameless plug:
The good thing is that Nucleo takes care of all that so you don’t have to worry about purge rates or max memory settings.
:end shameless plug:

Ben Piercey
GridIron Software

[Ben Piercey]

The benchmarks at https://www.gridironxfactor.com/products/nucleo_benchmarks.asp give a good indication of AEs performance potential on quads vs. duals.

Ben Piercey
GridIron Software