Replies – Forums – Garrett Patten

Forum Replies Created

Garrett Patten
November 2, 2011 at 6:10 pm in reply to: After Effects is rendering absurdly slow

CS5.5
Garrett Patten
November 2, 2011 at 5:11 pm in reply to: After Effects is rendering absurdly slow

I have an i7 860 2.8GHz, 16GB G.SKILL PC3 12800 RAM, and a Radeon HD 4890.
Garrett Patten
November 2, 2011 at 4:08 pm in reply to: After Effects is rendering absurdly slow

My project had a lot of comps and high res assets. I think the longer render times it was estimating were a result of After Effects hitting a particularly processor intensive part of the animation. I cut the motion blur samples by half and just let it render and the time slowly crept down until it finished eventually around 4 or so hours total. I had already tried every render setting, rendering multiple frames on and off, allocating more and less memory, opengl on and off, etc. In the end, I think it is just time for a new machine.
Garrett Patten
July 20, 2011 at 7:54 am in reply to: Quadro 4000 vs. Firepro V5900

Good to know, thanks guys. How would the V5900 compare to the Quadro in Premiere then? I think I might make the jump on a sandybridge first though, but is it going to be significantly better than my current 860? Upgrading would mean buying a new motherboard as well.
Garrett Patten
July 18, 2011 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Quadro 4000 vs. Firepro V5900

Thanks for the link, many things in there I haven’t attempted yet. But you are saying the graphics card won’t make any difference at all? Even cards with CUDA? For previews, or playing linked comps in Premiere, etc.? I will be upgrading my processor soon as well, but perhaps I will focus my card choice on whatever is natively supported in OS X so I can turn my new setup into a hackintosh.
Garrett Patten
July 18, 2011 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Quadro 4000 vs. Firepro V5900

Thanks for the response Walter. I’m just looking for ways to cut down on render and preview times as much as possible. I currently have 16GB of DDR3 1600 PC3 12800 memory and a Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz processor. Eventually I will upgrade to a Sandybridge. I figured getting a workstation card would offer a considerable increase in performance over my Radeon 4890. For After Effects at least, is a workstation card not going to be all that much better than a gaming card of comparable price?