[Sean Donnelly]

after some more tests my computer seems to have even more problems than I thought. I can’t even start a new project and import a semi-large file to it without the beachball spinning forever. I know these are large files (uncompressed quicktimes with alpha channel, or photoshop files that take up hundreds of megabytes) But they did work on my macbook pro, and continue to, just a little slow. on my brand new mac pro with 16 gigs i left the ball spinning all night and it couldn’t even import the photoshop file. did i mess something up somewhere along the way? should i erase everything and start again? i’m so confused. thanks

[Sean Donnelly]

dave, thanks a lot for your help
i tried kevins advice of restarting my preferences and turning of multiprocesses and open GL
and then i tried yours of turning them onto 6 with two gigs.
for some reason whenever i import a file it crashes my after effects, in both cs3 and 4
maybe not all files. but when i relink things, or import them for the fist time.
something seems to be wrong, since i should be moving a lot quicker than before
any ideas

[Sean Donnelly]

yes, I know those things, thank you
but all im’ saying is with the files as large as they are
they go just as fast on my macbook dual processor with 4 gigs of ram
than on my 8 core mac pro with 16 gigs of ram, and often my mac pro crashes more often on things like relinking files and small things
so i dont think its the drives or the file size. i think its about optimizing the cores or something

[Sean Donnelly]

thanks a lot. I’m delivering at 1920 x 1080, and my files are much bigger than that so that i can zoom in on them in certain places. I had a macbook pro lap top, and decided to upgrade so that I could get this done faster, so everytime I see the beachball i get quite upset.

I just restarted my preferences and it takes a while to show me a quarter resolution still. like about 30 seconds sometimes, which is about what was happening on my lap top. that is without multiprocesses enabled though. sometimes when i tweak the settings, it can do that much quicker, but then crashes on other things like ram previews or when i relink files the beach ball just spins forever. not sure what is happening here.

basically no lights or anything are being used, just high res photoshop layers. thanks a lot