Erik Lindahl
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The problem is I asked our reseller and they said since Medea went into the AVID-group, their support is non-excitant for non-AVID-branded products.
But that’s for the tip out the other forum, didn’t see it when browsing though the forums here!
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6-core 3.33 Ghz, 16GB of RAM and the 5870-card I’d opt for. It’s going to be the fastest system you can get for a lot of tasks. Don’t cheap out on storage either, it makes a world of difference.
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Aye, it seems so. I can render the given project in 8 bpp but not 32 bpp. I’ve tried to render with and with out multiprocessing on and both give the same error. Note I’m not using that huge images. 2000 x 2000 pixels are the largest ones BUT I do have a lot of layers and at the point of error I have very high motion and very high level of motion blur so it might be a frame size / sample rate issue / limit.
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Do double check what Dell-monitor you buy however. One generation suffered for scary ghosting-artifacts making them virtually useless (not Dells fault, just their choice of panel was poor – Samsungs with the same hardware had the same issues). This was a reason why Apple was stuck with their “silver” 20-23″ Cinema Display as well I think.
But I can say Dell CAN make very good monitors. I use 2x DELL 2209WA monitors from them (22″ IPS-panel).
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To add to this even in CS5 I’ve had OpenGL-related bugs and errors. I’d recommend avoiding it completely as others have posted even if it’s at a cost of performance.
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Erik Lindahl
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I’ve seen similar issues in the past in After Effects, esp. with “multiprocessing rendering turned on”. Exactly why it happens I don’t know but I think it was related to MP rendering as well as certain formats.
Try converting all your media to an AE-friendly codec such as QuickTime Animation or similar (not sure what AE prefers these days tbh but Animation as always worked well). You could also try rendering OUT in different formats such as an image sequence of some sort (TIFF for example) and see if that helps. If you have some kind of effects happening try turning them, motion blur and motion blending off and see if that makes a difference.
Good luck! 🙂
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One issue with grading in AE is you’ll never have true real time. This is something you really want from a grading perspective. AE is great a animation / compositing and color work, but for strictly grading I’d opt for Apple Color or DaVinci Resolve. The later has some specific requirements at the moment however:
– BlackMagic video card (AJA / Matrox support is on the way as I was told)
– Preferable a dual nVidia GPU setup (GT120 + Quadro FX4800 at the moment but a new generation of cards is around the corner – 1 Quadro is possible but you’ll end up with a 20% performance hit)
– Red Rocket Card is recommended for RED work (or you won’t get proper high quality realtime)But yeah, you CAN do nice work in AE in terms of grading. It’s just not super efficient in the end.
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I can second this. No matter if I’m on my 8GB RAM home station or 16GB RAM work station AE maxes out the use of RAM in a pretty nasty way (i.e. takes the system to a crawl).
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Erik Lindahl
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I’d check with the people you return your project too what they prefer you work in. I’d opt for DPX, TIFF or OpenEXR. I’d also as the above poster mentions highly recommend you going to AE CS5 – it’s a ton better at handling massive comp’s compared to CS4. 4K will mean RAM is an issue even in CS5 so I’d max that out. Just working in 2K stresses my setup out (16GB RAM / CS5).
Last but not least – do a trial round trip before you start working so you don’t run into format issues (i.e. gamma or color shifts). You want to sort that out before you’ve done X days or weeks of work.
Good luck!
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Erik Lindahl
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Depending on what work you’ll be doing 12GB RAM is on the low-end. For pure Premier editing it might work fine, for After Effects compositing it could very much be a bottle-neck.
I use 8GB of RAM on my home-station and 16GB of RAM at work and notice a huge difference in After Effects CS5 (same 8-core 2.8Ghz Xeon CPU).
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Erik Lindahl
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