[Brian Charles]

I was referring to multiprocessing requirements for RAM which are 2-3GB per process. A 4 core chip can spawn 8 processes.

[Brian Charles]

On the surface this looks like a good value but according to the tech specs this machine max’s out at 8GB of RAM with no upgrade path. That’s really too little After Effects these days.

[Brian Charles]

[Rex Polanis] “Does Invigorator work with lights and shadows in AE CS6?
“

Yes.

[Brian Charles]

[Walter Soyka] “Honestly, I don’t think the ray-tracer is the killer feature in CS6, anyway — the global performance cache is.
“

Agree completely. Ray-tracing in in AE is a good feature, if you need ray-traced 3D in AE without an nVidia card, look at Invigorator Pro 6.0

[Brian Charles]

[Walter Soyka] “The cache does noticeably benefit from an SSD — lots of random reads and writes can be slow on a mechanical drive, especially if it’s in use for other I/O, too.
“

Exactly why Adobe recommends a separate drive for the cache. Not the render drive, nor the boot drive or the media drive.

[Brian Charles]

To round the numbers you could use this:

p1 = thisComp.layer(“Object”).transform.position[0];
p2=thisComp.layer(“Object”).transform.position[1];
[(Math.round(p1)),(Math.round(p2))]

[Brian Charles]

You’ll need 2 layers. The moving object and a text layer. On the text layer use the following expression for the Source text property:

p1 = thisComp.layer(“Object”).transform.position[0];
p2=thisComp.layer(“Object”).transform.position[1];
[p1,p2]

Replace the word “Object” in the expression with the name of the moving layer.

[Brian Charles]

While you can move the camera perspective to show the shatter from above, Shatter does not respond to a boundary and the pieces will continue to fall.

You may be able to simulate what you want using a combination of shatter and a particle system like CC Particle World, or better yet Trapcode Particular.

[Brian Charles]

I don’t know whether this is the issue, but when I initially downloaded the computer was connected via WiFi, the download eventually failed.

Connecting via a wired connection was faster and successful.

[Brian Charles]

Many thanks to all for your replies. I’ll likely pick up a 570 and order the power cables from Amazon.