Tom Smith
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Thank you Erick and Dave for taking the time to answer me. I don’t have an SSD for rendering only, would it be better for me to render on my IMAC SSD (only OS and Creative clouds applications on it) , or to my media drive where is all my footage (Thunderbolt 3 JBOD 2Big Lacie) or to my SSD used for disk cache? (I think this one is not a good idea)
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PS: that would be cool if some of you could do this test https://vimeo.com/118053656 to see if clock speed beats multi processing once again in the new AE 2017.
Here’s my result:
Setup: Mac Pro 5.1 32GB RAM, XEON 2X6 core at 2,66GHZ, Nvidia GTX 960 4GB
AE CC 2014 with MP ON: 5:38sec
AE CC 2017: 7:7sec
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As I’m the one who started this thread, I wanted to add my 2 cents: I’ve waited til the beginning of March to reinstall AE 2017, and now everything works like a charm. Though I wanted to ask a question to everyone using CC 2017: does the interface seems snappier to you comparing to other versions? Rendering time seems to be the same but building the project, adding effects and generally working on the project seems a bit faster, I wonder if Adobe teams are working on this specifically before re-engineering the rendering process.
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Might be useful for some people who doesn’t want to lose old AE versions: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2172589
Always uncheck “remove old versions” when updating Adobe softwares, especially if you’re using them for a living. Adobe people always release beta builds since they started Creative Cloud, and for AE 2017 it’s even an alpha release! I can’t imagine how such a buggy version could have been greenlighted.
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The strange thing for me is it happens sometimes, and sometimes I have no issues with the playback (I just played with it 2 hours as I’m currently using 2015.3 for my work projects), when it works correctly I can’t see a very good upgrade in the preview speed vs 2015.3. When the crash happens, it can be on a 3 layers composition or 120 layers composition.
Another fact: When the playback crashes and I quit and relaunch the app, AE 2017 is unusable, very laggy, slow to load project files etc. I have to restart the computer. I’m monitoring CPU and it’s at 10% max, same for RAM.
The huge issue I have is really with the screaming BEEP when I preview composition with audio file (even when I create a new project with just a mp3 or wav file in it)
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2 shops where I freelance sometimes have upgraded from Mac Pro towers to iMac 27″ maxed out recently for 2D animators, the guy in charge told me it’s the best investment for a great power/price for this kind of tasks. Owner told me he tried Windows machines for Photoshop Illustrator and AE freelancers, but there were too many complaints of bugs, crashes etc. so they kept macOS.
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Try to click on your composition window then hit the ( key (I don’t know how it’s called in english, bracket? Parenthesis?), it will maximize your comp to full screen, then hit enter. It will normally playback real time now. It’s a known bug from After Effects.
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Hello Tim,
Thanks for looking into this! If I change the output I get no sound at all (the only other option is the built in speaker of the mac pro Tower). App crashes on every type of project: 2d animation, color correcting only, subtitles on a 1080p clip etc) here’s a screen of the audio preferences
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I’ve finally bought a gtx 960 card and a 4k display, which will be my last upgrade on my beloved Mac Pro Tower. I’ve been really impressed with the performance of the 960 gtx on 4k editing, it’s night and day vs my 680!
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Nothing new for desktop, they have the balls to announce a Macbook “Pro” with 256go flash, 8GB RAM and an intel i5 2Ghz for only 1499$! Apple “Pro” term is definitely for “pro-sumer”
