Brian Charles
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Zax, thanks for the reply.
I think the slowdown occured when I made a change to the Object Faceting setting. Perhaps I misheard Serge’s instructions but I set Object Faceting Draft setting to .01. I’m guessing that this ate CPU cycles.
I bought the Invigorator bundle today and hope the software performs well. Mea Culpa.
Thanks.
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CC particle world is bundled with After Effects 7 and CS3. It shouldn’t require registration.
The blue cross you’re seeing may simply be the producer point. In the effects control panel under Grid select “Off” from the drop down menu.
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Harry Frank has a tutorial on his site.
https://www.graymachine.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=31
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Goran, assuming the application is properly installed, this may be an OpenGL error. Is the application on a Windows or OS 10? What hardware — RAM, Video Card etc??
Try disabling OpenGL. Go to Preferences > Previews and turn off OpenGL.
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Working in draft mode, motion blur defaults. Literally just swtiching from the camera ode to the object mode can take 90 seconds with the spinning beachball. Activity monitor shows CPU at 120% during this pause.
Its wierd since the After Effects runs fast and problem free other than this.
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Sorry. MP is multi-processing, enabled through preferences in After Effects.
Generally a faster processor and more RAM is correct.
The RAM required is in the form of FB-DIMMS and the Mac Pro is very fussy about the quality of RAM.
Don’t buy additional memory from Apple, they charge a horrific premium. OWC has tested vertified memory for less than half of Apple’s price.
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No issues at all. Its very fast, and you can use MP in AE to access more RAM.
You’ll have to buy a new license for XP however.
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Thanks Mike. While you were posting I had some caffiene and my discovered my error as well.
Many thanks.
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I’d reversed the values in the final line…. Doh!
With some assistance from Adobe Expression reference:
startR = 800; //start rotation 800 pixels from camera
endR = 300; //end rotation 300 pixels from camera
C = thisCoe.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]);
P = toWorld(anchorPoint);
d = length(C,P);
linear(d,startR,endR,-20,0) -
You don’t mention which version of After Effects you are running, nor whether you have a multicore processor.
After Effects 7 only sees 2 GB of RAM. CS3 sees 3 GB but if you enable multiprocesssing it can use all available memory, you need at least 1 GB per core.
If you have a multicore machine try Nucleo Pro to speed renders. You can download a trial version from their site to see whether it helps.
https://www.gridironsoftware.com/
Nucleo will benefit from more RAM as well.