[Mike Mackenzie]

Didn’t help.

GPU:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/88770607@N06/8472323350/

Here are my memory settings as well, in case they should be allocated differently.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/88770607@N06/8471227665/

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

Tne layer comp, nothing my mac couldn’t handle before. This is why I think I must have accidentally toggled some setting by accident, but can’t find any way to toggle it back.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/88770607@N06/8468552233/

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

RT is slow, but is doable on my system, although Fast Draft is usually necessary while working things out.
The comp is for a multi-monitor setup that happens on the Reuters tower in Times Square.

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

Here are what I think are the relevant screens:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/88770607@N06/8469150004/

As for updating the Open GL drivers, it is my (shakey) understanding that this is included in OS X updates, and I am up to date in that regard.

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

The other 2tb were going to be for current project files (I like to keep that as a separate disc and use Time Machine to back it up). Sounds like a bad plan now, glad I asked.
Thanks!

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

Very helpful, thank you so much!

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

Good info, thanks guys!

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM

[Mike Mackenzie]

Thought I was ok with my random expression but apparently I wasn’t. Deadline prevents me from digging any deeper into this right now so I have to just finesse my keyframes. Next downtime I get will be devoted to some of your tutorials, thanks so much for your assistance!

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mac/Leopard
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Mike Mackenzie]

Thanks so much for the help, but as clueless as I am about expressions, please explain (if you have time) how I plug in the result value in the first line you posted.

If you tell me that what I am asking displays a basic ignorance of expressions and is beyond the scope of a forum response, well I wouldn’t be terribly surprised…

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mac/Leopard
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Mike Mackenzie]

I mainly do motion graphics for short format projects that don’t require huge amounts of video assets on my end; I mainly deal in AI and PSD for assets, with the occasional clip thrown in. I really appreciate your advice, and probably would have gone the dual-SSD route had I read that before ordering. That being said, a number of people have told me that 10gb is woeful on an eight-core machine doing AE work, although speed has never been a hindrance until now.

Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA

System:
Mac/Leopard
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
10 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM