Laurie Pepper
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And what about this from barefeats?
certainly a great argument for lotsa memory.
Though Apple has created Final Cut Pro and Motion to compete with Adobe Premiere and After Effects, it’s ironic that the programmers at Adobe “show the way” when it comes to squeezing maximum speed from the 8-core Mac Pro.
As you know, we’ve been fishing for an application that, by itself, can justify the purchase of an 8-core Mac Pro. I think we have found it: Adobe After Effects CS3. Though we added our After Effects results to previous articles on the 8-core Mac Pro, we decided to devote a special page to showing the dramatic the performance gains achieved not only by moving to the 8-core Mac Pro but upgrading from After Effects 7 to After Effects 8 (aka CS3).
The big news with After Effects CS3 is that it’s not only written in Universal code (native for both PPC and Intel Macs), but it has a special feature called “Multiprocessing” which is enabled in Preferences. There is a check box that enables “render multiple frames simultaneously.” When checked, AE spawns a process for each core called “aeselflink” and grabs up to 3GB of real memory per process. It’s like creating a “render farm” within a single Mac.
We used the TotalBenchmark project by Brian Maffitt to “exericise” After Effects CS3 on four of the top performing Macs. Not only were all 8 cores “cooking” in the top Mac Pro, but 1.5GB of real memory was dedicated to each process — or a total of over 15GB in use out of 16GB available!
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Will nucleo pro utilize all 8 cores?
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Thanks, Kevin. Glad I don’t have to spend the extra. Now I’ll find me some internal drives.
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Thanks, much. a friend said find a drive with a five year warantee if I could. The longer the warantee, the more reliable the drive (he said). I like Seagate — even though they are now Maxtor, too, I think.
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Thanks for the info, bogie.
I wish there were somewhere folks could go to actually compare working systems. I guess, sometimes at expos there’s a chance to really feel what it’s like — in the real world and before spending the money — to have more processors and different video cards in AE.
Interestingly, the benchmarks referred to above did talk about Motion but not about AE and about iMovie but not about FCP. That they DID leave out AE is a clue to all you say. The tech talk often leaves me puzzled, but those little speed graphs are very helpful. L.
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Thanks, whew. that made it easier. I just ordered the 3870. I’m getting the default ati with the mac pro. Now I’m just going to stop worrying about it. Thanks again. L.
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Regularity is definitely a plus.
But which one does fcp like best? You didn’t say. I’ve got two monitors. -
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Did an archive and install of Leopard. Everything seems to be working now. Haven’t tried zaxwerx, trapcode, etc.