[Jimmy Brunger]

Ahhhh…cheers Walter. Should’ve looked first!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Not 100% sure about CS3 compatibility, but AFAIK Intel quad Xeons or the new quad AMD chips (or 2 x dual Opterons) will give you pretty snazzy performance. Obviously it depends massively on the rest of your system (mobo, RAM, GFX card, etc) as to which chips you can go for.

ON the cheaper side there’s stuff like Intel Core 2 Duos and AMD Athlon 64 X2 chips. I’m hoping to get hold of a Socket 939 version of one of the AMD chips…but I’ve been 2 months waiting from Ebay! Grrr.. Wish I could just get a whole new system.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Of course, thanks Darby…totally different methods then.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Ooohh…good trick, didn’t know that one. So in what situation would it be better to use roving KFs instead then? You solution seems alot more flexible…

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Not sure about the HPs…see if you can find any reviews?..but the Dell’s have the same screen as Apples, so if you like the apples it makes 100% sense to go for a Dell instead. They have a Mac setting aswell, so no probs there.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

What you want to do is make ‘roving keyframes’…you need 3 or more KFs; select them all and then right/option click and select ‘rove across time’. That should do the trick. I think there are certain types of keyframes this doesn’t work on, but can’t remember which.

Hope that helps.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Fantastic…so when you do want to upgrade an edu version, you just pay what you would if you were upgrading from a pro version? eg: if it was

[Jimmy Brunger]

I can’t get that link to work….is stuff like Keylight, Color Finesse and Cycore FX included in the Edu verions then?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Thanks Aharon, I did try the purge and dump first but no joy. It must have been some bizarre quirk exclusive to that project. All done and dusted now though…so to the depths of an archived DVD-R you go!…

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Brendan,

you assumptions towards AE as an app are correct…it will only ever see 3 or 4GB RAM even in a 64bit OS. However the extra RAM is basically for the extra ‘instances’ of AE that are set off when working with Nucleo or CS3’s multiprocessing mode. Each core works with a new instance of AE (essentially upto 4GB RAM per instance) This speeds up previews & renders significantly. 8 cores and 16GB RAM will be a beast of a machine. You will need a 64bit OS for this kind of workflow of course.

I am still on a cr@ppy single core P4 and XP32, but we only do SD 30 sec commericals on the whole. Our work is starting to get more complex of late though and with HD on the horizon it looks like 8cores and Vista/XP64 is the way to go. Mac is an option, but AE is limited to 3GB per core with mac and we use Lightwave which doesn’t have a mac version…That said I’m setting up a Mac system at home soon.

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