Michael Szalapski
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If you enabled unsupported cards to accelerate the ray-traced renderer, but you’re using the classic renderer, then the GPU-enabling and your current problem are unrelated. The settings for the ray-traced renderer only apply when you’re using the ray-traced renderer.
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The RGB + Alpha is the key to get an alpha channel in your final product, yes.
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I would recommend compositing in After Effects.
I generally use Premiere to edit and then use After Effects to do compositing.That being said, if you really want to use Premiere to do your comping, just export from AE into a format that supports alpha and make sure you have it enabled.
For example, in your Output Module, you could choose QuickTime with the PNG codec. And then make sure you choose RGB + Alpha!
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When you talk about enabling CUDA, where are you doing this? Which renderer is your composition set to use? What effects are in your composition?
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The biggest factor in AE’s speed is the clock speed of your processor. Going from 3.8 on the i5 to the 4.2 on the i7 is going to be a noticeable difference.
Some things in After Effects are multithreaded now (like the C4D renderer and the new Camera Shake Deblur) so having multiple cores does help somewhat.The GPU doesn’t a whole lot for After Effects. However, more and more is being GPU-accelerated. Fractal Noise, Gaussian Blur, Fast Box Blur, Lumetri Color, Sharpen, Brightness and Contrast, Find Edges, Glow, Hue/Saturation, Invert, and Tint have all been given the GPU boost and more has been promised in the future.
Now, some third-party effects render entirely on the GPU or are accelerated heavily by it – Element, Red Giant Universe, Zaxwerks 3d Invigorator, ShapeShifter, etc., for example. So, it really depends on what kind of stuff you will be doing.Can you get two SSDs in iMacs? AE benefits from having a fast SSD that’s separate from your main drive.
It’s generally considered a good practice to match your RAM sticks. You don’t want to mix sizes.
Also, if you plan to upgrade later, make sure it’s possible first! A lot of Apple products these days have stuff soldered into the main board and can’t be upgraded later, so check before you buy!– The Great Szalam
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After Effects can import Photoshop files. No need to do anything fancy. 🙂
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It can’t be neither alpha nor RGB though…
Anyway, you might try the Extract effect to cut out the very darkest pixels.– The Great Szalam
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Can you choose to interpret the SGI format with an alpha channel in the interpret footage dialog?
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To show the layer you’re putting the effect on. It’s a lot easier to see with those diagonal lines than it would be if it were just a box around the layer.
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That is all just really basic layers moving around in After Effects.
Now, for the multiple stroke thing they may have used something like Ourobouros or Super Stroker to make things easier. (Both free.) But that’s nothing you couldn’t do by hand.
And, for their animation curves, they might use something like Flow to make things easier, but it’s nothing you couldn’t do by hand in AE’s graph editor.– The Great Szalam
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