Virtual Light
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I believe by “hosts” the program is asking for the application you intend to use the plug-ins with. For example, AfterEffects 7, AfterEffects 8 (CS3), Final Cut Pro or Motion. I’m on a Mac and did the install yesterday. I believe the installer “listed” those selection rather than ask for “host”.
Jim
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Depending on the model (MacBook or MacBook Pro) it’s unlikely you’d experience any signficiant speed-up. Remember, you’ll have to purchase another copy of AE to test this and additional licenses of any plug-ins required for the render. A new Santa Rosa MacBook Pro with 4GB of ram wouldl probably show measurable improvement in render speed. But I don’t think it’s worth the expense.
You won’t need Nucleo Pro since multi-processor support is already built into CS3 (I’m assuming that CS3 is the version you referred).
Jim
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Yep…CS3. Yep…the new UB version of plug-in.
Jim
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Thanks Randy, that was the problem–no initial keyframe.
Jim
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I have the same problem…where’s the camera?
Jim
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I would recommend at least 4Gb. Given the system overhead, and fundamental memory requirements of the application itself, you would ideally like to have 2GB free for each processor. Adobe says at least 512Mb Ram for each processor, but that minimum could result in a lot of disk swapping and that would compromise the speed you’re looking for in multi-processing.
Jim
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That’s a great idea. Is CS3 as stable running under Rosetta as 7 was running native? Also, do all the CS3 features still work?
Jim
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I’ve been using a MacPro 8-core and 16gb of ram with AE since the beta was first made available. Although I would never recommend changing versions in midstream, I had little problem opening v7 projects with one exception. In that case the camera views went wild. It was only a ‘curiosity’ check because it was a wildly complex project, but if I HAD to use CS3 it would’ve been a nightmare. I never erase previous versions due to just this kind of problem and the inevitable plug-in incompatibilities.
As far impacting my system–WOW. Having the software use all 8-cores is a sea change in the way I work as is the 8-fold increase in rendering. This would be reason enough to upgrade but there is a very impressive feature set also.
Jim
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You could re-time 15p to 30i but I wouldn’t recommend it–it will not look good. I think you’re stuck. There are some graphic programs (usually 3D renderers) that will only render the lines in each field and then combine them to make one interlaced frame but AE is not capable of doing this.
Jim
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To be more specific regarding OpenGL, here’s what the dialog says when you try to enable it in the AE preferences…
“OpenGL acceleration is not currently supported on this version of Mac OS. Please go to http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_openglsupport for current information about OpenGL hardware support”
Looks like Apple will have to supply some kernel changes to satisfy AE. Hopefully 10.5 will solve this problem if not a sooner update.
Jim