I received a response from the tech department at Gridiron. They say basically that Sys X has a 3GB limit per application. So, AE can theoretically address 3GB. I just asked whether there was 1.25 GB restriction for AE running under rosetta, so I haven’t heard back on
that yet.
Nucleo/Nucleo Pro creates six iterations of AE and its project when rendering – each needing up to 3GB as far as we know at this point – so the more RAM the merryier. They did tell me that testing showed that a minimum of 2GB/iteration seemed to work well. They weren’t sure just how much benefit the extra RAM would have other than for foreground work with Nucleo Pro, which allows you to work in AE while rendering or other applications.
Eric
Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com