Ericbowen
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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.
Eric-ADK
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SSD’s Latency is so low the OS drive can easily handle the OS processes and the AE cache. AE already uses the Windows Variable cache directory for some caching anyway. The consideration here is the firmware on the SSD drives cannot always keep up with the garbage collection over time if you constantly write files and delete. Eventually the SSD drive slows down and the only way to reset it is wipe it. If you don’t put other files on the OS besides Programs and the AE cache though you shouldn’t run into that. Make sure the Media Cache is not there though.
Eric-ADK
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Yes Hyperthreading works fine with CS6 and is good to have. Make sure those CPU’s are the E5 V2 models and not the V1’s. Don’t get the Quadro unless you need 10bit color preview. It will not help you in AE much at all and Geforce card is far better for Premiere’s MPE performance wise. I would suggest 128GB of ram with that many threads. 64GB is low to support that many threads especially if the frame sizes are over 1080. The SSD drive is ideal.
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Sorry just realized you already have it. Set the multiprocessing enabled and set the ram to 1.5GB per thread. It’s up to you whether you leave a few CPU threads for other applications. I would also enable the multiprocessing for Ram preview. The AE Cache should be fine at 20GB on the OS SSD. Beyond that you should be fine.Eric-ADK
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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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Preferably the 8 Core or higher and atleast 32 GB of ram whether you get the 6 or 8. Unfortunately the nMPro config is not really good for AE or other similar applications because those 2 GPU’s don’t help at all. It would be far better with 2 CPU modules and only 1 GPU. So half of the system you are paying for means nothing to any performance gains. AE is really best on a PC at this point until the nMPro changes if it ever does.
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Then you need to have a serious heart to heart with them and explain either the deadlines come off or they invest in the right tech to handle AE renders in the time frame they expect. They are not getting both in a MBP or any laptop. I have a 1 min comp that takes 1.5 hours to render on Dual 12 Core Xeons ie 48 threads. That kind of processing doesn’t get done on a laptop. BTW you are going to thermal damage that CPU in the MBP rendering for over a day at a time long term. The cooling in those is not meant to handle that kind of energy generation long term.
Eric-ADK
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Time sensitive AE comps should not be rendered on a MBP or any laptop. They don’t have near the processing power of a workstation. Does your company not have a dedicated render station for these? If not they need a serious review of their tech investment.
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Did you clear out the media and re-import again after the sample rate change? Also are you importing via the media browser?
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Did you make sure the sample rate of the comp matches the sample rate of the audio from the media? Most likely those wave files are 44.1k
Eric-ADK
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