[Roger Burton]

There’s a little enclosure, it seems it takes 2 x ssds: LaCie eSata hub, might be a more flexible way to go, ie a small ssd for cache and another (when I get some more money) for rendering to or storage or whatever ?

Still expensive for a ‘housing’ plus the TB cable of course and then the drives ! – anyway thought I’d add this alternative in case anyone is following this thread.

Have good weekends chaps – Roger

[Roger Burton]

I’ll have a further fiddle with the settings, thank you Dave.

[Roger Burton]

Thanks Mr LaRonde … I appreciate your help … ideally I want a thin white line tapering to nothing, I understand that because of anti-aliasing when the line gets really thin the pixelation ‘breaks up’ the smoothness of the line, I can almost solve this with a little blur … the attached image shows (on the left) my thin line tapering, the line on the right has 1 pixel of fast blur which ‘fills-in’ some of the gaps but obviously softens the line … I will go with this (and maybe even mask out the last very very thin bit of the line in order for a nice tidy finish) but wondered if there were a more elegant solution to the problem …

[Roger Burton]

Thanks again Kevin, I’ll dig into this a little deeper now with the benefit of your help. – Roger

[Roger Burton]

Thanks both for making such an effort to help me out, I’m in the UK so will explore the local Mac people for the ‘upgrade’ (don’t feel brave enough to do it myself having looked at a few videos explaining the procedure) – so is an external SSD not really going to hack it ? Roger

[Roger Burton]

Thanks Walter, lightweight After Effects use really, and I rarely have to import video so it’s mainly graphics based instructional videos, animated maps etc, – generally nothing more than 3 minutes duration and often only web-based output but then when I need to produce for transmission in HD I feel a little more speed would help my workflow and when looking at resources outlining ways of improving performance I often read that getting rendering and caching away from the hard drive that the media is on is a good idea !

Roger

[Roger Burton]

Thanks John – excellent, bit of a panic though, Apple have hidden the ‘Library’ in ‘users’ in ‘Lion’ – found it now and copied to to CS6 … thanks again. Roger

[Roger Burton]

Well I’m getting further down the line but it’s pretty frustrating, AE keeps crashing … I’m on AE CS6 and Invig 5.1.0 … ant thoughts welcome.

Roger

[Roger Burton]

Thanks dave – clears that up then.

Have good weekends chaps _ Roger

[Roger Burton]

Thanks Perry and Darby … well I’ve never touched Open GL before but read somewhere that it helped speed up renders and clicked the button, what a dramatic difference ! – thanks for taking the time, what is the point of open GL then just for previews ?

Roger